Tuvalu Makes $4M a Year
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Tuvalu Makes $4M a Year
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#2This led me to look up whether the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands), and therefore the British Government, received any money as a result of the .io domain.
It appears not. [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
[1] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldtoday/writtens/11...
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#3This led me to look up whether the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands), and therefore the British Government, received any money as a result of the .io domain. It appears not. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io [1] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldtoday/writtens/11...
The British shouldn't get money, but the Chagosians forcibly evicted by the British probably deserve it more than most: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Eviction
Sad that they aren't seeing a penny, apparently.
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#4To complete the title: "Tuvalu Makes $4M/yr from the .tv Domain".
From a December 2019 Washington Post article[1], there are ~500,000 registered .tv domains. The math on that works out to license fees of ~$8/domain ($4M/500k).
Considering .com is around $10/yr and .tv is around $30/yr[2], I'm interested to know where the incremental $12 goes ($30 - $8 - $10).
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/12/23/tuvalu...
[2] Namecheap
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#5This led me to look up whether the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands), and therefore the British Government, received any money as a result of the .io domain. It appears not. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io [1] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldtoday/writtens/11...
The British shouldn't get money, but the Chagosians forcibly evicted by the British probably deserve it more than most: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Eviction Sad that they aren't seeing a penny, apparently.
It's amazing to me that British seem to get the full PR whack of that attrocity when it was all under the auspices of the US who paid the Brits to kick them out.
Kind of like how we all collectively forget that the Allies dropped the bomb on Japan and not just the "Americans".
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#6> Isn’t it amazing that a country that’s merely a speck in ocean ... controls something so crucial to the internet world?!
I spit my tea out bahaha
But on a more "substantive" note, I think I did a case study 12 years ago about what an invasion of Tuvalu could look like - by private persons, and we mapped out their satellite and internet infrastructure for how to disable that. I had only ever heard of the country because of this TLD and looking it up.
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#7To complete the title: "Tuvalu Makes $4M/yr from the .tv Domain". From a December 2019 Washington Post article[1], there are ~500,000 registered .tv domains. The math on that works out to license fees of ~$8/domain ($4M/500k). Considering .com is around $10/yr and .tv is around $30/yr[2], I'm interested to know where the incremental $12 goes ($30 - $8 - $10). [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/12/23/…
> I'm interested to know where the incremental $12 goes
Uh everyone thats not the passive royalties holder? What answer do you really want?
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#8Little recompense in the face of losing their nation to the carbon-emitting activities of large nations, who do not admit them as refugees.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/will-tuvalu-di...
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The British shouldn't get money, but the Chagosians forcibly evicted by the British probably deserve it more than most: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Eviction Sad that they aren't seeing a penny, apparently.
It's amazing to me that British seem to get the full PR whack of that attrocity when it was all under the auspices of the US who paid the Brits to kick them out. Kind of like how we all collectively forget that the Allies dropped the bomb on Japan and not just the "Americans".
TIL that the Americans consulted with the British before dropping the bomb on Hiroshima (but declined their request for British participation in the mission). The Soviets were apparently not notified in advance (although I could be wrong about that) and the British had veto power over what would be revealed to the Soviets about the bombing.
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#10To complete the title: "Tuvalu Makes $4M/yr from the .tv Domain". From a December 2019 Washington Post article[1], there are ~500,000 registered .tv domains. The math on that works out to license fees of ~$8/domain ($4M/500k). Considering .com is around $10/yr and .tv is around $30/yr[2], I'm interested to know where the incremental $12 goes ($30 - $8 - $10). [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/12/23/…
> I'm interested to know where the incremental $12 goes Uh everyone thats not the passive royalties holder? What answer do you really want?
Obviously. More to the point, what other incremental costs exist, if any, that would account for a $20 premium in price when cost appears to be going up by $8?