.tv

For the defunct British TV channel, see .tv (TV channel).

.tv
Introduced1996; 28 years ago (1996)
TLD typeCountry code top-level domain
StatusActive
RegistryGoDaddy Registry
SponsorGovernment of Tuvalu
Intended useEntities connected with Tuvalu
Actual useMarketed commercially for use in television (TV) or video-related sites; can be registered and used for any purpose; little use in Tuvalu
Registration restrictionsNone
StructureDirect second-level registrations are allowed; some second-level domains such as gov.tv are reserved for third-level domains representing entities in Tuvalu
Dispute policiesUDRP
Registry websiteturnon.tv

The domain name .tv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Tuvalu. The domain name is popular, and thus economically valuable, because TV also happens to be an abbreviation of the word television.

In 1998, the government of Tuvalu sought to capitalize on the .tv suffix,[1] later signing with the International Telecommunication Union, Information.CA, Idealab, Verisign, and currently GoDaddy to expand the domain.[2][3][4] Except for reserved names like com.tv, net.tv, org.tv and others, anyone may register second-level domains under .tv. By 2019, 8.4% of the revenue of the government of Tuvalu came from .tv royalties,[5] 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."[6]

  1. ^ "Tiny Tuvalu is .tv centre". BBC. 11 August 1998. Archived from the original on 18 January 2023. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
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  5. ^ Toafa, Maatia. "Government of Tuvalu 2019 National Budget" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 April 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Managing multi-regional and multilingual sites". Archived from the original on 5 October 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.