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Here's a look at some other places cashing in on their unique
top-level domains:
Tuvalu
Tuvalu is a string of coral atolls, scattered over hundreds of
miles in the Pacific Ocean, located midway between Australia and
Hawaii. It has one of the world's smallest economies and its
low-lying islands are vulnerable to climate change, but it does
have a very valuable resource: the .tv web domain. Royalties
from .tv, which web users might assume is short for television,
have been climbing, especially after videogame streaming
platform Twitch licensed the web address twitch.tv.
Libya
The North African country, which has been plagued by turmoil
since longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi's death in 2011, isn't
readily associated with internet culture. But Libya controls web
addresses that end in .ly, which have become widely used as a
so-called domain hack for websites with English names that end
in -ly. Well-known examples include bit.ly, used by the weblink
shortening service Bitly, and parse.ly, the website for online
analytics platform Parse.ly.
Montenegro
This Balkan country became an independent nation after the
breakup of Yugoslavia. It's one of Europe's smaller countries —
about 620,000 people — bordered by the Adriatic Sea, Bosnia,
Kosovo, Serbia and Albania. Montenegro was assigned the .me web
domain, which has become popular with people who want to claim
their pronoun for personal branding.
Websites ending in .me are “often used for personal websites,
portfolios, blogs and online resumes or portfolios because ‘me’
can be seen as a way to personalize an online presence,” website
builder Wix says.
Colombia
Websites that end in .co aren't from a generic web domain for
companies, like .com sites. The .co domain is assigned to
Colombia, but the South American country allows anyone to sign
up for its web addresses. Internet registrar GoDaddy says more
than 2 million .co web domains have been claimed, including
addresses claimed by Big Tech names like Amazon which uses it to
redirect online shoppers to its .com home page. Google,
meanwhile, informs visitors to g.co that the link is it's
official shortcut.
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