Latest Site News

Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps Introduced
July 3, 2005

The Microsoft Virtual Earth Map implementation was completed today. The Google Maps implementation will follow within the next 30 days, followed by the introduction of comparative graphing of country information on printer friendly pages by the end of the year. The process of placing all country information into a relational database is expected to require another three months with coding requiring an additional two months. The new Student Resource Center should be ready by the beginning of 2007!

WorldCountries.Info Stolen
June 10, 2006

Please be aware that in early May, 2006 WorldCountries.info became aware that our web site had been stolen and republished under the domain names www.world-and-countries.com and www.bestworldcountries.com.

Authorities in New Zealand and the United States indicated that the purpose of the theft was to use WorldCountries.info as a legitimate "store front" for a spam email campaign whose purpose was to lure victims to an identity theft and money laundering scheme.

These two sites are no longer available on the Internet, but unfortunately these individuals might attempt to republish under a new domain name in the future.

Should you see a copy of our web site it will have the following characteristics:

• The pages will appear exactly as do our pages with the same photos, fonts, page design, etc. You will be able to flip from the "cloned" page to the source page on our site and see almost no difference whatsoever
• All of the scripted pages on WorldCountries.info --- such as latest news, latest weather, the Amazon store, the photo gallery, and the discussion forum --- will have been removed since these individuals possess neither the resources to maintain them nor any need for them
• The name of our publisher might even appear on the Mission Statement page, just as it does on WorldCountries.info

If you see such a clone of WorldCountries.info please report it immediately to webmaster@worldcountries.info.

Thanks much!