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Internet domain code for Tuvalu the defunct British TV channel .tv (TV channel) August 2023 June 2020 .tv DotTV logo.svgclass=skin-invert 1996 y Country code top-level domain Active GoDaddy Registry Government of Tuvalu Entities connected with Tuvalu Marketed commercially for use in television (TV) or video-related sites; can be registered and used for any purpose; little use in Tuvalu None Direct second-level registrations are allowed; some second-level domains such as gov.tv are reserved for third-level domains representing entities in Tuvalu UDRP turnon.tv .tv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Tuvalu. The domain name is popular, and thus economically valuable, because TV also happens to be an abbreviation of the word television. In 1998, the government of Tuvalu sought to capitalise on the .tv suffix,1998-08-11 Tiny Tuvalu is .tv centre https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/149084.stm https://web.archive.org/web/20230118185915/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/149084.stm 2023-01-18 2020-04-01 live BBC later signing with the International Telecommunication Union, Information.CA, Idealab, Verisign, and currently GoDaddy to expand the domain. Except for reserved names like com.tv, net.tv, org.tv and others, anyone may register second-level domains under .tv. By 2019, 8.4% of the revenue of the government of Tuvalu came from .tv royalties,Toafa Maatia Government of Tuvalu 2019 National Budget https://www.tuvaluaudit.tv/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/FINALE-2019-NATIONAL-BUDGET_approved-by-Parliament_17Dec.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20240414222107/https://www.tuvaluaudit.tv/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/FINALE-2019-NATIONAL-BUDGET_approved-by-Parliament_17Dec.pdf 2024-04-14 13 December 2022 with hundreds of thousands of websites registered under the domain. Google treats .tv as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) because "users and website owners frequently see [the domain] as being more generic than country targeted."Managing multi-regional and multilingual sites https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192 live https://web.archive.org/web/20191005224021/https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192 5 October 2019 5 Oct 2019 History Background and creation As a small island-nation, Tuvalu used to have a low yearly income, which would eventually change with the local government's creation of the .tv domain.Ogden, M. R. 1999 Islands on the Internet http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/13298/1/v11n2-452-465-resources.pdf The Contemporary Pacific 11 2 454–455 https://web.archive.org/web/20240609041616/https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/bf14312f-feab-432d-a312-95da598667b7/content 2024-06-09 The domain was implemented and issued in the 1980s, after which the government of Tuvalu cooperated with the International Telecommunication Union to find a marketing partner for the domain. In 1998, the .tv Corporation was established as the exclusive .tv domain registrar under the management of Information.CA of Toronto, which agreed to pay US$50 million upfront to manage and market .tv registrations until 2048. Following delays in payment, in 1999, the contract was reassigned to the California-based Idealab, which agreed to pay $12.5 million of the $50 million upfront and the remainder in $1 million quarterly payments over a 10-year licensing contract. After a $5 million quarterly payment in January 2000, the company's subsequent poor financial performance resulted in the transfer of $3 million in preferred .tv stock to the government of Tuvalu in exchange for waiving three quarterly payments.Conway, James M. http://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-10-2-Conway.pdf Entrepreneurship, Tuvalu, development and .tv: a response Island Studies Journal 10 2 2015 229–252 10.24043/isj.329 248650961 25 February 2017 19 October 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211019015241/https://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-10-2-Conway.pdf dead Marketing and use thumb|Logo of the domain under Verisign On 31 December 2001, the company was acquired by Verisign for $45 million, including $10 million for Tuvalu's $3 million stake in the company.Berkens Michael 25 February 2012 VeriSign renews contract with Tuvalu to run .TV registry through 2021 http://www.thedomains.com/2012/02/25/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240708183953/https://www.thedomains.com/2012/02/25/ 2024-07-08 25 February 2017 The Domains Quarterly payments were renegotiated from $1 million to $550,000 and extended to last until 2011. On 19 March 2010, Verisign reduced .tv registration fees to encourage widespread adoption of the domain. In 2011, Verisign renewed its contract with the government of Tuvalu to manage .tv registrations through 2021. In 2014, Amazon acquired Twitch for $1 billion, making it the first .tv website to achieve unicorn status. The government of Tuvalu subsequently renegotiated its contract with Verisign, resulting in an increase in yearly payments to Tuvalu around $5 million, a 1/12th of the nation's annual gross national income (GNI) at the time.Lee Alexander 23 December 2019 Tuvalu is a tiny island nation of 11,000 people. It's cashing in thanks to Twitch https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/12/23/tuvalu-is-tiny-island-nation-people-its-cashing-thanks-twitch/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231104000432/https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/12/23/tuvalu-is-tiny-island-nation-people-its-cashing-thanks-twitch/ 2023-11-04 26 December 2019 The Washington Post As Verisign opted not to renew its contract, on 14 December 2021, GoDaddy signed a contract with the government of Tuvalu to manage .tv registrations, increasing yearly payments to the government of Tuvalu to $10 million.2021-12-14 GoDaddy wins contract to run .TV, Verisign didn't bid for renewal https://domainnamewire.com/2021/12/14/godaddy-wins-contract-to-run-tv-verisign-didnt-bid-for-renewal/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240527200340/https://domainnamewire.com/2021/12/14/godaddy-wins-contract-to-run-tv-verisign-didnt-bid-for-renewal/ 2024-05-27 2022-01-30 domainnamewire.com en2022-01-22 Tuvalu cashes in on its coveted internet domain name amid rise in online streaming https://theworld.org/stories/2022-01-24/tuvalu-cashes-its-coveted-internet-domain-name-amid-rise-online-streaming https://web.archive.org/web/20240418133335/https://theworld.org/stories/2022/01/24/tuvalu-cashes-coveted-internet-domain-twitch-tv 2024-04-18 2023-10-25 theworld.org en In 2023, an agreement between the Government of Tuvalu and the GoDaddy Company outsourced the marketing, sales, promotion and branding of the .tv domain to the Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation, which established a .tv Unit. 13 December 2023 .tv Unit at Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation Department of Foreign Affairs - Government of Tuvalu https://dfa.gov.tv/index.php/2022/12/13/tv-unit-at-tuvalu-telecommunications-corporation/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240105013540/https://dfa.gov.tv/index.php/2022/12/13/tv-unit-at-tuvalu-telecommunications-corporation/ 2024-01-05 25 November 2023 Content stations Websites with the .tv domain often feature video content for specific brands or firms. The domain contains the sites of news services, including Fox News and MSNBC. It also includes streaming services such as Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and Dropout. The domain also contains the website Twitch, and the Eurovision Song Contest. .co.tv In July 2011, Google removed .co.tv websites from its search results due to their extensive use by website scammers. This had no impact on other .tv websites.6 July 2011 Google blocks .co.cc, attackers are now using .co.tv https://blog.sucuri.net/2011/07/google-blocks-co-cc-attackers-are-now-using-co-tv.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240221012521/https://blog.sucuri.net/2011/07/google-blocks-co-cc-attackers-are-now-using-co-tv.html 2024-02-21 According to Lucian Constantin at Softpedia, "CO.TV is a free domain provider that is obviously being abused by the people behind this campaign. All of the rogue domains used are hosted on the same IP address."Constantin Lucian 11 June 2011 CO.TV Free Domain Provider Abused in Google News BHSEO Campaign http://news.softpedia.com/news/CO-TV-Free-Domain-Provider-Abused-in-Google-News-BHSEO-Campaign-205566.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20230424003537/https://news.softpedia.com/news/CO-TV-Free-Domain-Provider-Abused-in-Google-News-BHSEO-Campaign-205566.shtml 2023-04-24 Impact on Tuvalu's economy In 2019, the island of Tuvalu gained an estimated $5.5 million from the domain, along with other business practices like fishing. Proceedings from .tv domain registrations are used to fund the Tuvaluan government's Future Now Project (tvl Te Ataeao Nei), which provides mitigation plans for infrastructure and maritime boundaries affected by climate change, digitisation of cultural heritage and maintenance of the domain and related intellectual property's active status.What is a .TV Domain? https://turnon.tv/about https://web.archive.org/web/20240106161130/https://turnon.tv/about 2024-01-06 Sep 21, 2023 .TV Godaddy RegistryFuture Now Project Department of Foreign Affairs - Government of Tuvalu 7 October 2022 https://dfa.gov.tv/index.php/future-now-project/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240107213649/https://dfa.gov.tv/index.php/future-now-project/ 2024-01-07 Sep 21, 2023 Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of Tuvalu Future Tuvalu's long-term habitability is threatened by climate change, with the island being barely above sea level.2024-08-22 Tuvalu is slowly disappearing. What happens when its land is gone? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/tuvalu-islands-sea-level-rise-climate-change 2024-08-22 Environment en In response to the question of what would happen if a nation-state would cease to exist, the ICANN board stated: "If the code element is removed, the ccTLD would be eligible for retirement. Reason for removal is not of relevance."17 September 2021 Proposed Policy for the Retirement of ccTLDs https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/reynoso-to-botterman-28sep21-en.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20230123031937/https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/reynoso-to-botterman-28sep21-en.pdf 2023-01-23 ICANN This means that the top-level domain would be dissolved if the country were to disappear,14 October 2021 Long-term future of .tv domain uncertain https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/long-term-future-of-tv-domain-uncertain https://web.archive.org/web/20240421182436/https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/long-term-future-of-tv-domain-uncertain 2024-04-21 SIDN eventually needing to be recreated as a gTLD for television and video media (thus making its actual use official), maintained elsewhere—such as in the United States, like .com, .org, .net, and other generic-use domains. See also .ai References External links http://archive.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/24/dot_tv/index.html I want my own .tv 2007-04-02 Salon.com https://web.archive.org/web/20120711111348/http://www.salon.com/2000/07/24/dot_tv 11 July 2012 dead http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/massive-tv-an-online-storytelling-lab-for-college-students.html Massive.tv: An Online Storytelling Lab For College Students 2011-04-23 psfk.com https://web.archive.org/web/20110404032132/http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/massive-tv-an-online-storytelling-lab-for-college-students.html 4 April 2011 live 2010-09-21 Category:Internet properties established in 1996 Category:Communications in Tuvalu Category:Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Country code top-level domains with an alternative usage