| No, you're right, the first extension that jumps to | | | | pretty slight! |
| mind when you're looking for something on the web | | | | And secondly, not only is the acronym immediately |
| isn't the country code of an obscure little island in the | | | | recognizable, it is also eminently memorable. Tell |
| Pacific; that honor belongs to dot-com, now and | | | | someone your website address is "MyBusiness.tv" |
| probably into the far future. On the other hand, if the | | | | and they will almost certainly remember it long |
| dot-com domain name you want belongs to | | | | enough to use it. |
| somebody else who either won't let it go or wants a | | | | Third, there are still lots of domain names available |
| small fortune for it, then you're going to have to look | | | | with dot-tv unlike dot-com and net. Your chances of |
| elsewhere, aren't you? "TV," the island of Tuvalu's | | | | finding the right domain name with a dot-tv extension |
| country code as defined by the International | | | | are good. |
| Organization for Standardization (ISO) might be the | | | | A fourth reason to register a dot-tv domain name |
| right one for you. | | | | resides in the extension's association with video |
| Of course there's always dot-net or dot-org, biz or | | | | content. Say "TV" and you tend to think images. Any |
| bz, any of which will make you a fine domain name | | | | customer typing in a dot-tv domain name expects to |
| extension for your business. So why consider dot-tv? | | | | see video when he arrives at the website. I don't |
| After all, by its own admission at the 2009 | | | | believe that is the case anymore with dot-com |
| Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, the island | | | | where text is now king and video tends to irritate |
| of Tuvalu might disappear under the waves in the | | | | rather than titillate or inform. If your product or |
| next century if global warming isn't stopped. | | | | service lends itself well to informational video, then |
| Well, for one thing the acronym "TV" is at least as | | | | dot-tv might be your best bet! And don't worry |
| recognizable as Com. Is there anyone in this wide | | | | about your domain name extension disappearing with |
| world of ours that hasn't seen or heard the word | | | | the island, the Soviet Union has been gone for nearly |
| "TV?" OK, there might be some undiscovered tribes | | | | twenty years and you can still register its country |
| in the Amazon that don't know about "TV," but the | | | | code extension, dot-su. |
| chance of their becoming customers of yours is | | | | |