I put my IP in, and it put a blue marker way off on the left in the middle of the black... now I know it is a bit of a joke to leave New Zealand off maps, but geeze :)
As others have noted, this is a legalese/formality issue (copied from ISO-3166), not a political statement. Note that IP ranges from provinces in mainland China are listed as "China", not "Province of China" (e.g. https://ipv4.dev.sarl/@zoom=16&ip=203.187.74.93). Additionally, the formal name of Taiwan is "Republic of China", so the loophole for formal purposes, as others have mentioned, is that the term "China" is ambiguous.
I think the more interesting thing is that Crimean IPs are listed as part of Russia (e.g. https://ipv4.dev.sarl/@zoom=16&ip=77.121.55.93). Practically speaking Crimea operates as province of Russia nowadays, but I believe formally/diplomatically most countries still recognize it as part of Ukraine. That's almost a reversal of Taiwan, which operates as an independent country in practice, but for formal/diplomatic purposes is considered as part of "One China".
Other than the standard people mentioned, there are also the "1992 consensus" [1] which intentionally made the word "China" ambiguous.
One possible interpretation is there's a thing called "de jure China", and both P.R.China and R.O.China (Taiwan) can claim themselves as legit. It's just
de facto R.O.China happens to control only one province within China with is Taiwan (maybe plus some islands from Fujian).
If you really want to cause a stir: for zooming in deep, use one of those ML algos to create random human face avatars and randomly assign names and fake stats to them.
One of the ad techs lurking here can probably even help you switch out the ML fakes for the real thing. :)
The "you are here" marker doesn't appear very accurate. It placed me in North America, but I'm in Sweden...
Edit: zooming in it actually places me in Sweden and even gets my ISP right. But still categorises me as North America. Did geography change while I slept?
The original /8 was assigned to ARIN (which handles IP addresses in the US), and then later a more specific subnet (like a /16) was transferred to RIPE (which handles the European region).
So while the big block is correctly shown as North America, the smaller ones shouldn't be.
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There are cars that are more expensive than that, so setting up a new (g)TLD is really not that difficult or expensive for any moderately large organization.
At this point, just about any random word in the dictionary has probably been made into a TLD:
It is called early adopters. As in: in the 80s (??) A random admin wrote a well written email and got what he wanted for free. Now they are worth millions.
My company owns some large IP blocks from a while back; they are mulling over selling them since they aren't in use. But then someone internal says "what if we need them for XYZ", so the sale is delayed. Easier to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
Both my phone and computer show in Australian subnets however when I had cloudflair's 1.1.1.1 app enabled on my phone it was showing within a Chinese range?
In an IPv6 map, the entire IPv4 space would take up exponentially less area than a single IP address takes up in the IPv4 map. I don't know how IPv6 addresses get allocated, but at that zoom level it would be quite empty.
