• abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Didn’t Tuvalu massively benefit from being assigned a TLD that is popular? I read they were able to build an airport with .tv money

    • Gamey@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yea, they managed to get it back at some point but it was under external control with close to no benefit for them for a long time!

    • ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      They reclaimed many domain rights and are now renting them out for big money, yeah. They were still scammed off by many.