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| Introduced | 18 March 1996 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | GoDaddy Registry |
| Sponsor | Government of Tuvalu |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Tuvalu |
| Actual use | Marketed commercially for use in television (TV) or video-related sites; can be registered and used for any purpose; little use in Tuvalu |
| Registration restrictions | None |
| Structure | Direct second-level registrations are allowed; some second-level domains such as gov.tv are reserved for third-level domains representing entities in Tuvalu |
| Dispute policies | UDRP |
| Registry website | TURN ON YOUR DOMAIN |
The domain name .tv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Tuvalu.
Except for reserved names like com.tv, net.tv, org.tv and others, anyone may register second-level domains under .tv. The domain name is popular, and thus economically valuable, because it is an abbreviation of the word television. In 1998, the government of Tuvalu sought to capitalize on the .tv suffix being short for "television".[1] By 2019, 8.4% of the revenue of the government of Tuvalu came from .tv royalties,[2] with hundreds of thousands of websites registered under the domain. Google treats .tv as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) because "users and website owners frequently see [the domain] as being more generic than country-targeted."[3]
- ^ "Tiny Tuvalu is .tv centre". BBC. 11 August 1998. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Toafa, Maatia. "Government of Tuvalu 2019 National Budget" (PDF). Retrieved 13 December 2022.
- ^ "Managing multi-regional and multilingual sites". Archived from the original on 5 October 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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