Tiny Tuvalu cashes in on '.tv' domains
News Tuvalu, a tiny South Pacific nation measuring 26 square kilometers, has sold the use of its domain name -- .tv -- to Idealab! in a deal that promises to garner Tuvalu more than three times its national budget.
[April 12, 2000, 7:09]
VeriSign buys .tv Web domain
News The .tv domain is actually the country code for the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu. Tuvalu licensed the domain to .tv Corp.in 2000 for $50m, using part of that money to join the United Nations.
[January 7, 2002, 15:39]
Domain names get rock 'n' roll with .mu
News Another company, Dot TV, paid the South Pacific islands of Tuvalu $10m for the right to register .tv domain names. Entrepreneur David Sams will try to put sex appeal into a suffix Monday, when he begins registering domain names that end with ".mu".
[December 7, 2000, 9:23]
Trouble in paradise -- McAfee warns of island hopping spam
Blog McAfee has identified the following small islands as being favoured by spammers: Tokelau, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Tuvalu, American Samoa, Isle of Man, Tonga, and Sao Tome and Principe. McAfee anti-spam researchers have been tracking a trend they...
[November 1, 2006, 15:19]
