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fun fact: .tv domain name represents the island of tuvalu in the pacific. everytime you register a domain name here, ICANN pays them an annual sum for upkeep


Dang, what's next? .me being owned by Montenegro? .ai by Anguilla? .fm by Micronesia!?

Jokes aside, every two-letter domain belongs to a "country" (using that term very broadly), some countries just got luckier than others.


maybe not as lucky in the case of tuvalu as it is estimated that the island is going to sink completely in a few decades


I don’t understand how that’s related


he said "some countries just got luckier than the others"


Fun fact: it's one of the tiny island's biggest exports




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