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Tuvalu is sinking!
May 13th, 2009 by Andreas from Xavier Media
This may come as a big surprice, but the island nation of Tuvalu is sinking!!!!
Tuvalu is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia and they have the Top Level Domain (TLD) .TV. Their TLD is marketed as a Top Level Domain perfect for companies working with TV in all ways like TV-stations and Web TV Stations. With it's high prices of $39.99 it's kind of an expensive TLD to register your domain names under, but since the nation is sinking I guess they need all the money they can get.
Now here's the funny part in all this sadness (you have to agree it's sad that the nation is sinking): Godaddy, one of the companies registering .TV domains is actually warning it's customers from registering domains under .TV since the islands are sinking (see the post at Archit.in).
So what will happen to all registered .TV domains if Tuvalu sinks? That's an interesting question and I only think that will be decided if and when the last part of Tuvalu sinks under water for good. However if we look at other TLDs like .SU it's still existing years after the fall of Soviet Union so the chances that .TV will survive Tuvalu is good. Tuvalu could also survive as a country somewhere else on the earth since I've heard some roumours they want to buy some land…..
The good thing is that there are plenty of other good doain names you can use for your web projects like the .ME domain for example.

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