Clicking on ‘.tv’ benefits the island of Tuvalu. Here’s an article on it.
It’s ironic that “tv” both stands for Tuvalu (see country codes) and is slang for “television” in the USA.
So if ever you see a commercial on television that gives you a web address with “.tv”, don’t hesitate to use it:). And you’ll be helping Tuvalu.
What do the rest of you think about this?
:):)
Companies which register a .tv domain pay a fixed annual fee so they’re not making money for clicks. I suppose if a company doesn’t see many people clicking on a tv domain, they might decide not to renew it the next year but it’s only $25 a year so it’s pretty trivial.
I was aware that .tv was connected to Tuvalu, but in the grand scheme of things it’s not a big deal. Italy had a brief surge of interest a while back with its .it domain, including some amusingly crude sites along the lines of “fuck.it”.
I can’t imagine .tv sites are a huge monetary boost for the country but at least it’s a reasonably honest and honorable income stream as opposed to some of the stuff places like Nauru have done in the past.
Tonga had something good going on in a similar way with its “.to” domain, and there are a few others too.
So does that mean I can blame the island of Catalan for nyan.cat?
I fail to see what is ironic about tv standing both for Tuvalu and for television.
It’s not ironic at all. Tuvalu specifically marketed itself as a host for U.S. television domains as a way to bring money into the country. It’s not an interesting coincidence if they did it on purpose.
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Makes me wonder how much money Christmas Island made off their .cx domain.
Since however much they made, probably more than half of it came from the unlucky souls tricked into clicking on goatse.cx.
I figured the irony is they don’t have any television broadcasts there. But I don’t know if that’s actually the case.
As has been said, no traffic for any of these domains goes to the country in question, and the domain costs involved are fixed annual ones.
The most recent one I’ve seen is Montenegro’s “.me”