• Gamey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The domain bs is a interesting case of scummy practices in general, .tv was missused in a similar way with awful contracts, essentially scamming a already increadably poor country!

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      1 year ago

      TLDs are a non-tangible arrangement of characters that are defined by a committee at a whim. The countries they are given to have not contributed anything to make them worth more. I don’t see how that can be seen as a scam when they don’t get free money based on a random decision by someone outside of their country.

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      1 year ago

      Didn’t Tuvalu massively benefit from being assigned a TLD that is popular? I read they were able to build an airport with .tv money

      • ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        They reclaimed many domain rights and are now renting them out for big money, yeah. They were still scammed off by many.