# The Worst of Dot TV

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-dot-tv/43634>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 1, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-dot-tv/43634 "2000-12-01T20:37:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pyrrhonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pyrrhonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyrrhonist)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-dot-tv/43634/1 "2000-12-01T20:37:44Z")

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Some of you will have heard about the new domain, dot TV. Supposedly, it is the for the next generation of web sites that are, well, more TV like. You know how the dull old [weather.com](http://weather.com) that gives out boring temperatures and predictions, but [weather.tv](http://weather.tv) will take you “live at the eye of the storm.” That is the general idea. Personally, I’ve never checked out a dot TV web site, but I’ve been thinking about what would make the worst of the “more TV like” web pages.

What would you least like to see? Post your worst imaginings with a short tag line to heighten the horror. Okay, here are mine:

[hillarydance.tv](http://hillarydance.tv)  
–“Shake your booty! Shake your booty!”

[proctology.tv](http://proctology.tv)  
–“Bend over. Let’s have a looksy.”

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**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-dot-tv/43634/2 "2000-12-01T20:48:06Z")

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I take it you’re not talkign about the Tuvalu sites? They have a country code of .tv - they intend to cash in on this (I think it’s a small S. Pacific island)

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**Author:** ![malden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@malden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malden)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-dot-tv/43634/3 "2000-12-01T21:01:16Z")

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**lurkernomore** – they already are.

Check out [http://www.tv](http://www.tv) to see what they’re all about. Example: [free.tv](http://free.tv) has a price tag of $100,000 US. Apparently, it has been bought.

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-dot-tv/43634/4 "2000-12-01T22:00:32Z")

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If I’m not mistaken, Tuvalu sold or plans to sell the rights to the .tv domain for around US$50 million. This works out to about $5000 per capita (no, I don’t think they distributed it that way). The previous GDP of Tuvalu was somewhere around US$10 million.