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February 27, 2003

While looking at my logs I noticed that one of the countries that accessed this is site is Tuvalu. I had never heard of it, so I googled it. While looking through an information site, I found this interesting bit of information...

Since 1999, Tuvalu has been able to earn over US$5 million a year marketing it's Internet domain name through the American company .TV Corporation. Tuvalu's unique suffix, ".TV", attracts interest from many individuals, entities and television companies around the world, and some have been willing to pay large sums for internet addresses such as www.china.tv or www.nbc4.tv. The scheme got off to a rough start, but has now proven to be the largest source of income for the nation.

Way to go Tuvalu. All this time I figured it was something that the television industry had created, but instead it is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean who are exploiting our media. For some reason, that makes me happy.

Comments (1 comments so far)

Comment #1:

They need the cash. The official Court Jester made off with $26 million in cash:

http://www.pacificislands.cc/pm12002/pmdefault.cfm?articleid=4

Dave Barry did a hilarious column about it.

Posted by Joseph J. Finn on March 03, 2003 at 1:02PM

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