Domain Names like .tv
Jan 13th, 2005 by Ashley
– Learn a new thing everyday –
I was reading “Find It Online” recently, which I was supposed to read a/half year ago (it was the textbook for my Digital Information Retrieval class.) Anyway, the first few chapter are rather easy; I've already known most of the knowledge it presents, but it's still fun to skim it real quick, cuz I did find something interesting unexpectedly.
It talked about the country domain, such as uk for the United Kingdom, tw for Taiwan, but do you ever wonder about why there are some URL of blah blah .tv? If the book didn't mention, I guess I'd never consider it a problem, cuz it just seems so natural that tv standing for television. However, the fact is that .tv is the domain name of a small country called t-something, and they sell their domain names to those TV industry… kinda cool :p