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Nobody owns michaelberube.com.

That’s why so many somebodies read it:

Domain drilldown, unique visitors, December 5-10.

1. com (Commercial) 12,018 (30.15%)
2. net (Network) 11,148 (27.97%)
3. (no entry) 9,491 (23.81%)
4. edu (Educational) 3,483 (8.74%)

That’s it?  Only 3,483 from .edu?  Just what are you all doing instead of reading this blog?  Grading papers or something? I can’t hear you, people!

5. ca (Canada) 471 (1.18%)

Can’t I do any better than this with Canada, you ask?  Sadly, no!

6. au (Australia) 335 (0.84%)
7. uk (United Kingdom) 283 (0.71%)
8. nl (Netherlands) 220 (0.55%)
9. my (Malaysia) 213 (0.53%)

Always a pleasure to hear from my good friends in Malaysia.

10. org (Non-Profit Organizations) 205 (0.51%)
11. us (United States) 194 (0.49%)
12. fr (France) 168 (0.42%)

No comment.

13. ru (Russian Federation) 166 (0.42%)
14. de (Germany) 161 (0.40%)
15. gov (USA Government) 129 (0.32%)

This better be Democratic Congressional staffers looking for advice.

16. sg (Singapore) 119 (0.30%)
17. at (Austria) 103 (0.26%)
18. ee (Estonia) 100 (0.25%)

Hello Estonia!  I guess now is the right time to mention my one-day trip to your lovely city of Tallinn.  It was the summer of 1972; I was ten years old, in hockey camp, and it was part of my one and only trip to Europe between my birth and my thirty-ninth year.  And I almost got left behind, as the camp bus took off to take us to the boat back to Helsinki.  Fortunately, someone on the bus noticed I was missing, otherwise I would have wandered around Tallinn for hours until I became the center of a diplomatic wrangle among Finland, KOHO corporate officials, and the Soviet authorities who’d reluctantly granted us the one-day visit.  Ah, those were the days.

19. mil (USA Military) 97 (0.24%)

Ulp!  Uh, hmmm.  Hey, did I mention that I’ve joined the Liberal Prose Network and will be running blogads?  Well, tell you what.  I’m going to suggest that everyone from the .mil domain who buys products advertised on this site should get a twenty percent discount. . . .

20. cn (China) 78 (0.20%)

. . . whereas people from the .cn domain will be subject to a twenty percent surcharge.  Trying to do my part to combat the trade deficit, you know.

21. se (Sweden) 62 (0.16%)
22. nz (New Zealand) 61 (0.15%)
23. dk (Denmark) 53 (0.13%)
24. be (Belgium) 41 (0.10%)
25. jp (Japan) 39 (0.10%)
26. ma (Morocco) 38 (0.10%)
27. ch (Switzerland) 31 (0.08%)
28. it (Italy) 23 (0.06%)
29. no (Norway) 23 (0.06%)
30. br (Brazil) 23 (0.06%)

Morocco!  Now that’s a surprise.  Not that I don’t love all of you equally, except maybe one or two of you countries that are just way too clean.

And stay tuned!  This blog might just be in for even bigger surprises.  You never know.

Posted by on 12/11 at 08:04 PM

  1. I’d be fascinated to know what it tells you .ws is.  Some places have refused to recognize it as a valid domain.

    MKK—

    Posted by Mary Kay  on  12/11  at  10:48 PM

  2. .ws is a Women’s Studies domain, Mary Kay, and therefore is not recognized as a legitimate sector of the Internets.

    If I were you I would blame the patriarchy.

    Posted by  on  12/11  at  11:43 PM

  3. Is it weird that I get excited whenever I get a visitor from NASA or the National Park Service?

    Posted by Orange  on  12/12  at  01:08 AM

  4. Oh for goodness sake, Michael, now you’re obsessed with your meter stats, too?!  Stop it now!  When will it all end?!?!?!?!?!?!?

    Posted by Dr. Virago  on  12/12  at  01:53 AM

  5. I, for one, probably show up as a .net, where I could be a .edu---although I’m a college student, I live off campus and get my ‘netness from Comcast....

    Posted by jonathon  on  12/12  at  02:20 AM

  6. Hi Michael!

    Yes, this is interesting. But if you want guage your REAL impact, you have to run a stat meter of people who had never seen “Slap Shot” until becoming acquainted with your blog. Please do me the honor of counting me as #1.

    (Yeah, it’d been on my list of movies to see for ages, but it was you who finally tipped the scales).

    Posted by  on  12/12  at  02:29 AM

  7. It will end, Dr. V., when the .mil stop watching me.  AND NOT BEFORE.

    Posted by  on  12/12  at  02:31 AM

  8. And O-Girl, I am honored to do you that honor.

    Posted by  on  12/12  at  02:32 AM

  9. Well, I’d say I am responsible for a great part of the german visits.... grin keep going Michael, i am waiting for the books! and after the next election you’ll hopefully have a bigger percentage of .gov visitors

    Posted by Adrian  on  12/12  at  05:14 AM

  10. This blog might just be in for even bigger surprises.

    Oh really?

    Posted by Sadly, Not Michael  on  12/12  at  06:30 AM

  11. 5. ca (Canada) 471 (1.18%)

    Can’t I do any better than this with Canada, you ask?  Sadly, no!

    I’m sorry, Michael. I’ve only been able to check in 4 or 5 times a day lately. I’ll try harder.

    Posted by  on  12/12  at  10:01 AM

  12. Ack!  You linked to him!  Why did you do that!  You weren’t facing a mirror and saying his name three times, were you?

    And btw—Estonia.  That’s cool.  The visitors and the story.

    Posted by Dr. Virago  on  12/12  at  11:58 AM

  13. I don’t know what you’re talking about, Dr. V.  Linked to whom?

    Posted by  on  12/12  at  02:34 PM

  14. Nope, not gonna work. Can’t make me be specific.

    Posted by Dr. Virago  on  12/12  at  05:35 PM

  15. I wondered why “no” attracts so little traffic from .no domain.

    Actually, I am quite confused.  Earlier today I wanted to vote for “Sadly, No!” as a top blog in 251-500 category, but somehow I clicked on michaelberube.  Now it appears that they are one and the same—but no, Sadly No! is sad about somewhat other things than Michael.  While fellow academicians drive Michael to melancholy, Sadly No! is depressed over preachers are almost-literate girls.

    Posted by  on  12/13  at  12:17 AM

  16. I wondered why “no” attracts so little traffic from .no domain.

    Because Nobody owns michaelberube.com, piotr.  And Nobody tells us what to do.  That’s why we’re Nobody’s slave.  Nobody doesn’t have to generate traffic—Nobody rules this domain.

    I, Michael Bérubé, hail our Nobody masters.

    Posted by Michael  on  12/13  at  12:39 AM

  17. Did this so-called Nobody happen to get you drunk and steel your rams? He’s a professor at Cornell, I think.

    Very lame, I know, but who’s gonna stop me?

    Posted by  on  12/13  at  02:10 AM

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