# Web addresses end in other countries?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 21, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-addresses-end-in-other-countries/388782 "2007-01-21T02:23:44Z")\
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[QUOTE=Telemark]  
And that’s the same reason that Tuvalu makes a huge amount of money renting out their .TV domain.  
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And they’re going to need it when their whole island is [underwater](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2219001.stm).

> [@Colophon](#):
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> The Web was invented by an Englishman working in Switzerland, so that’s certainly not it.

But the Internet predated the WWW and the Internet, and DNS, originated in the US.

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