• Lamedonyx@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The vast majority of people likely don’t know that .tv isn’t a vanity or official TLD, but the Tuvalu country TLD. And its royalties make up nearly 10% of the state’s budget.

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        Yes. Other common ones include .fm for Federated states of Micronesia, .io for British Indian Ocean Territories and .ai for Anguilla.
        .be, of youtu.be, is Belgium.

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          Back in the days bit.ly was a quite popular link shortener (it’s still a link shortener) and when shit went down in Lybia gadda.fi (or some other spelling don’t remember) plopped up as a novelty shortener to protest against using just any country TLD for random internet domains. .fi should be fine, it’s Finland.

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          Interesting. I wonder if that has anything to do with why some companies started dumping them for regular TLDs.

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      Similarly, the .io TLD is for territories around the Indian Ocean. But for some reason, it became popular for cheap little flash-style games.