Similarly, the .io TLD is for territories around the Indian Ocean. But for some reason, it became popular for cheap little flash-style games.
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Lamedonyx@lemmy.world 10 months agoThe 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 public funding of the country.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 10 months ago
maness300@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So… twitch.tv is actually twitch…Tuvalu???
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
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.
barsoap@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
sleepmode@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Interesting. I wonder if that has anything to do with why some companies started dumping them for regular TLDs.