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DotTV Corporation
The DotTV Corporation was established to provide Internet users with an additional set of addresses ending in the extension .tv. By licensing the rights to this top-level domain from the country of Tuvalu, DotTV was able to open up logical names and email addresses for myriad companies and individuals. The company was acquired by VeriSign in 2001.
The DotTV Corporation
Founded:
2000
Acquired:
2001 (VeriSign)
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DotTV Wants to Be Your Domain

Hoping to break from the pack of teeny domains like .tm, .md, and .to, .tv has launched a major advertising campaign, touting itself as the perfect symbol for the Internet's future.

August 31, 2000  |  Wired
South Pacific 'TV' nation finds paradise on the Internet

The tiny South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has become all the rage in the high-tech world because of its top level Internet domain name, which is ".tv".

April 18, 2000  |  CNN
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