Significations et usages de tv

.tv

Introduced	1996
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	The .tv Corporation (a Verisign company)
Sponsor	Government of Tuvalu
Intended use	Entities connected with  Tuvalu
Actual use	Marketed commercially for use in television or video-related sites; can be registered and used for any purpose
Registration restrictions	None
Structure	Direct second-level registrations are allowed; some second-level domains such as gov.tv are reserved for third-level domains representing entities in Tuvalu
Dispute policies	UDRP
Website	TV registry

The domain name .tv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the islands of Tuvalu.

Except for reserved names like com.tv, net.tv, org.tv and others, any person may register second-level domains in tv. The domain name is popular, and thus economically valuable, because it is an abbreviation of the word 'television'.

  Verisign

The domain is currently operated by dotTV, a Verisign company; the Tuvalu government owns twenty percent of the company. In 2000, Tuvalu negotiated a contract leasing its Internet domain name ".tv" for $50 million in royalties over a 12-year period.^[1] The Tuvalu government receives a quarterly payment of US$1 million for use of the top-level domain.

On December 14, 2006, VeriSign announced an alliance with Demand Media, run by ex-MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt to market the .tv top level domain name (TLD) as the preferred Web address for rich media content. ".TV" premium names cannot be transferred to another registrar. Annual renewal fees for .TV premium names are the same as the initial "buy now" registration fee.

On March 16, 2010, Sedo announced that it teamed up with Verisign to hold an exclusive auction on April 1 for 115 premium .TV domain names that would carry standard non-premium annual renewals regardless of the closing auction price. On March 19, Verisign announced that premium .TV names would now be available through an expanded .TV registrar channel, slashed prices on premium .TV names, and made a significant number of high sought after premium .TV names non-premium. As a result, Verisign essentially lifted the roadblock that previously discouraged investment in the .TV extension by major domainers, investors, and developers.

Because of VeriSign's involvement, and the fact that VeriSign is based in the United States, it is subject to United States law. The first .tv domains were seized by the U.S. government as part of Operation Fake Sweep prior to Super Bowl XLVI.^[2]

  Content Stations

Websites with the .tv domain often feature video content for specific brands or firms. Publications like Nylon and Pitchfork Media run sub-stations of their online publications strictly for original video content. Marketing firms like Vice in New York have received contracts to create brand-tailored .tv content stations, such as Motherboard.tv for Dell and the Creator's Project for Intel have given this domain type more visibility, and inspired the creation of independent content stations at the college level across the United States such as Massive.tv at Northwestern University, Maingreen.tv at Brown University, and Kuumba.tv at Washington University.

  co.tv

"co.tv" is not an official hierarchy; it is a domain (co.tv) owned by a company who offers free subdomain redirection services, like co.nr.

This company offers free co.tv subdomains. Due to the large use by website spammers of subdomains from co.tv in July 2011 Google removed .co.tv websites from its search results. This had no impact on other .tv websites.^[3]

According to Lucian Constantin at Softpedia, "CO.TV is a free domain provider that is obviously being abused by the people behind this campaign. All of the rogue domains used are hosted on the same IP address."^[4] Such unconventional usage of TLDs in domain names are sometimes known as domain hacks.

The company closed on the 31 October 2011. All existing domains were cancelled.^{[citation needed]}

  References

1. ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tv.html
2. ^ http://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-sports-streaming-domains-in-new-super-bowl-crackdown-120202/
3. ^ http://www.gadgetphones.net/1833/domain-co-tv-de-index-by-google/
4. ^ http://news.softpedia.com/news/CO-TV-Free-Domain-Provider-Abused-in-Google-News-BHSEO-Campaign-205566.shtml

This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (November 2010)

• "I want my own .tv". Salon.com. http://archive.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/24/dot_tv/index.html. Retrieved 2007-04-02. 
• "Massive.tv: An Online Storytelling Lab For College Students". psfk.com. Archived from the original on 04 April 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110404032132/http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/massive-tv-an-online-storytelling-lab-for-college-students.html. Retrieved 2011-04-23. 

  External links

• Verisign .TV Information
• Find a .TV Registrar
• Whois
• Dot TV Blog
• End of Domain co.tv