document: Geographic locations of web servers The ccTLD ( country code Top Level Domain ) in a URL does not necessarily point to the geographic location of the server concerned . The authors have surveyed sample servers belonging to 60 ccTLDs in Africa , with regard to the number of hops required to reach the target site from Japan , the response time , and the NIC registration information of each domain . The survey has revealed the geographical distribution of server sites as well as their connection environments . It has been found that the percentage of offshore ( out of home country ) servers is as high as 80 % and more than half of these are located in Europe . Offshore servers not only provide little benefit to the people of the country to which each ccTLD rightly belongs but their existence also heightens the risk of a country being unable to control them with its own policies and regulations . Offshore servers constitute a significant aspect of the digital divide problem .
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