You learn something new every day!
I just discovered that the TLD .tv does not actually stand for television. Read carefully through the Economy part of this article on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu#Economy
Interesting info!
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andy206uk posted this at 16:37—31st January 2007.
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lol... prior to the introduction of .info, .biz etc all domains except for .com .org and .net were country specific. There's also .to (tonga) and .cc (cocos islands).
I think my favourite country specific domain is .co.ck
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Monkeyboy posted this at 17:34—31st January 2007.
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I wonder if big.co.ck is taken hehe
Samji posted this at 19:16—31st January 2007.
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Doesn't look that way.
void posted this at 12:03—1st February 2007.
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Tim- even I thought the same about .tv until I read the article, it’s surprising and good that Tuvalu earned so much revenue on that TLD.
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Carney posted this at 09:52—22nd February 2007.
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the Telnic registrar will soon release new domain .tel that will cover all telecomunication area (television, telephone) and they say that boom is expected
andy206uk posted this at 16:49—26th February 2007.
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I've been working in the domain industry for 8 years now, and I'm pretty sure that it won't get much interest, aside from an initial flurry from domain speculators.
The reason for that is that there are still people out there that think that all websites are .com names - nothing else out there carries the same level of recognition in joe public's mind.
Andyk
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HQHost.net posted this at 07:51—26th February 2007.
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Hi. I think that there will be plenty of domain name extension. I don't think that it will be helps pople to keep in mind all that extensions.
ohrana posted this at 07:52—27th February 2007.
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People just got used to some extensions and don't want to buy domains with the other ones. I think it's the question of a habit.
Ahosting.biz posted this at 08:17—10th March 2007.
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I think that it is cool to have the same domain name with different extensions.
Carney posted this at 12:10—15th March 2007.
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When new TDL is created, not often people use it as iy needs and the content is another. That's why there is no wonder if TV is not for television. And even if this TLD was created as ccTLD, then if it was sold it can be used for TV content.
tanjh posted this at 10:48—22nd March 2007.
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I was surprised too when I first found out..