The „.de”-Domains and the internet in Germany

Regional structures and growth patterns

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  • Christian Langhagen-Rohrbach Institut für Kulturgeographie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Stadt- und Regionalforschung, 60325, Frankfurt am Main

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https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03185692

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The Internet as a virtual medium is often considered to be placeless. This article tries to find out that even the Internet has a regional structure in “real” space. This structure depends on infrastructure (networks) as well as on existing spatial patterns of places. So the Internet intensifies existing regional disparities. The growth pattern of the Internet in Germany shows the same pattern as it is well known from the diffusion of any other innovation. The German Internet Toplevel-Domain “.de” is an example of this growth pattern in Germany.

 

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2002-01-31

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Langhagen-Rohrbach C. The „.de”-Domains and the internet in Germany: Regional structures and growth patterns. RuR [Internet]. 2002 Jan. 31 [cited 2024 Apr. 25];60(1):37–47. Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/1546