That's an interesting article.
Apparently Verisign pays $5,000,000 /year to Tuvalu and charges
somewhere around $100/year to register a .tv domain. There are over
500,000 .tv domains, so they must gross over $50,000,000/year on that.
Administrative overhead is said to be something like $1/domain.
It's good to be Tuvalu, but even better to be Verisign.
When I read stuff like that I think I clearly chose the wrong profession.
-Adam
On 2/10/2020 2:51 PM, Nate Burke wrote:
1/12 of the gross national income.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/12/23/tuvalu-is-tiny-island-nation-people-its-cashing-thanks-twitch/
On 2/10/2020 1:43 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
I've heard that very rumor about Tuvalu. It's an ity bitty country.
TV channels have money and want .tv domains.
On 2/10/2020 2:39 PM, Nate Burke wrote:
Wasn't there just a report that one of the popular TLD names from a
very small country had a significant portion of the countries income
come from domain registrations.
On 2/10/2020 1:37 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
Maybe just like television-oriented entities use the country code
for Tuvalu (.tv).
bp
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On 2/10/2020 11:29 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I came across a farm whose domain ended in .ag.
Technically that’s the country code for Antigua. And apparently
it causes some issues in Germany where lots of company names end
in AG.
Is it fairly common practice to register .ag domain names for
agriculture?
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