I hate videos where the title is a question but could just be the answer, so I searched the answer instead of clicking: it’s Germany’s country code, .de, which has 16.1 million registered domains. The next two are .uk and .cn, which belong to the United Kingdom and China, with 10.6 million and 9 million domains, respectively.
The point of this video really isn’t to just give information, but rather to be funny and entertaining.
If you had watched the video instead you would know that this isn’t really the point of it.
Well that just makes the title even more useless.
That’s one way to look at it. Another way is to see it as entertainment trying to get you to watch, not a lecture trying to be concise.
Also, the question in the title has an answer which I think is far more interesting than the one given in the comment a few levels above this, and that is the answer the video gives. Sometimes the story told on the way to giving an answer can be more interesting than the actual answer, and this video, as a bonus, goes through the basics of DNS in a way that is digestible for a casual viewer. In my opinion, these are all more interesting than a guy writing “it’s .de”, and are all valid reasons for the video to be titles as it is.
That’s one way to look at it. Another way is to see it as entertainment trying to get you to watch, not a lecture trying to be concise.
Hmmm what’s worse: giving a video a shitty and misleading title because you’re a dumbass…or giving a video a shitty and misleading title very intentionally because you’ve decided that the content isn’t good enough to draw viewers on it’s own and have therefore decided to deceive people into clicking and watching based on said title?
When have the titles of entertainment ever been about anything but drawing in an audience? Do you also get mad at the title of movie “Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?”, or do movies have a pass? What about “Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?” These are all entertainment that use a question for the title, even if the answers are not the reason to watch this.
… That was the point? They made a video about the internet, so they’re parodying click-bait titles?
You’ve got the wrong mindset going into it. Would you really go to a standup comedy and then complain you learned nothing useful? These videos are for entertainment foremost, lecturing second, concise factual information not at all.
“It’s the viewer’s fault the creator gave their video a shitty title!”
Hard disagree. The title isn’t shitty. The worst harm that could’ve come to you is that you spend 30 seconds watching a video that you realise isn’t for you. This horrible fate is a risk you run when browsing the interwebs.
Yes it might be annoying expecting a concise lecture about domains, but you only need to spend 30 seconds to realise it and you can avoid map men forever if you wish.
Your expectation seems to be that video titles should be there to provide all context before watching, and while that may be true and desirable for fully educational channels, this isn’t one of them. You’ve got the wrong expectations coming into it.
What do you think is a better title? “This is a humorous video about country codes on the internet. Please watch only if you are willing to be amused and not thoroughly educated.”
I can’t believe they forgot to mention the Cook Islands, especially their commercial second-level domain!
It’s
.co.ck.Trash Bat
The latest Map Men video is a bit light on the maps (there’s basically only one) but is still a fascinating look at how top level domains came to exist and not match the physical world.
Their previous video, Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about, is a good companion piece that describes the network of undersea cables that carry the internet across oceans.
Thanks for sharing, I love Map Men. How did I miss this one‽
