GoDaddy is telling its clients not to buy .TV domains because the small island country is slowly sinking; Tuvalu is the small island country that is responsible for the .TV web address. The problem is that the island nation is slowly sinking and that one day the country will be abandoned and according to ICANN so should all of the address related to that specific country code.The .TV address is popular for the infomercial types even though it technically has nothing to do with television at all but is a mere coincidence that the abbreviations are the same. Will ICANN actually force this domain name off the internet once the country disappears, probably not, it's a high value domain ending that should remain active for decades to come.
If they do decide to remove the domain ending you can be sure that lawsuits will spring up everywhere due to some high profile companies that register the domains for infomercial related products. If not you can be sure Billy Mays and that ShamWow guy will put up a good fight too.
A lot of countries sinking have nothing to do with anthropogenic global warming. Anybody seeing the line of atolls and sea bumps trailing Hawaii can see that. The decay of small oceanic islands happens, regardless of what we do.
I think it's just marketing. Do you know how expensive .TV names are?
.TV is used I guess by a lot of television companies; I did not realise that they became dead if a country sunk into the ocean.
.TV is used I guess by a lot of television companies; I did not realise that they became dead if a country sunk into the ocean.
The UK isn't going to sink anytime soon is it now.
.TV is used I guess by a lot of television companies; I did not realise that they became dead if a country sunk into the ocean.
The UK isn't going to sink anytime soon is it now.
+1 I don't think the scottish highlands for example will go soon.
Some other countries are like that too. .co.jp is another one... The US has a really odd domain setup for state domains. .state..us so .state.md.us for example.
www.nhs.uk
nominet.org.uk controls the registration of .uk domains.
probably going to get snipped, but thats domains they have.
j/k
Don't you mean .tv.blub.blub.blub
"Tuvalu could be swallowed up by the sea in less than 50 years if the planet gets much hotter."
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GoDaddy's notice seems to be like one of those stock market small cap price manipulation e-mails i used to get in spam, people would buy the stocks based on recommendations, prices would go up and then crook would sell.
Only here they seem to be trying to make .tv cheaper for squatters.
ICANN is not stupid to discontinue a top-level domain used be large media houses!!
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