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VeriSign Buys .tv

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the throat-singers-need-not-apply dept.

Mike Damm writes: "As everyone is so worried about Microsoft these days, another monopoly is slipping through the cracks. VeriSign has paid the country of Tuvalu $45 million in cash for The .TV Corporation, as stated by this press release. Same great service, different obscure TLD!"

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  1. Re:How many of these new domains? by bliss · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Each country has it's own top-level two character domain name. Then there are the historical non-national (but generally US-centric) .com, .org, .gov, .mil, .arpa, .int."

    I guess my next question is why are people using tuvalu for web hosting?

    ".int is interesting, as it is designed for multi- and inter-national organizations. The best known .int subdomain is tpc.int. which is used to map domain names to phones (typically, with fax machines)."

    the UN?

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  2. How could they resist? by Stultsinator · · Score: 0, Troll

    when all of the top Veri$ign execs are transvestites?

  3. Re:How many of these new domains? by bliss · · Score: 0, Troll

    "tv became a "hot" TLD because of the television tie-in, hence the desire to have a .tv domain. This just means that Verisign paid for the right to handle DNS for the domain so they can charge to register .tv subdomains, so do the math."

    and hence my original post wondering if they had created a new set of domains. But I guess the Tuvaluians are quite pleased I would assume.

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    The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic --Joseph Stalin