Sunday, January 4, 2009

creative leasing in the global village




I'm sure you've noticed the domain names for countries when perusing foreign websites, "de" for Germany, "UK" for England, "za" for South Africa. Luckily for the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, the national web domain suffix also happens to be something very memorable and potentially profitable for web designers, ".tv". With very few natural resources and limited economic prospects, Tuvalu has made millions of dollars annually by simply leasing ".tv" to web hosters.

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