How Unusual Domain Names Make Pacific Islands Millions
How Unusual Domain Names Make Pacific Islands Millions
Across the Pacific from Tonga to Tuvalu to Tokelau domain names are making a real impact on these nation’s economies. How did we get here and what does the future hold for these nations? In this video I take a virtual (and actual) journey to the world’s least visited nations to find explore more.
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Safety and Impact – The overseas portions of this video were filmed in the before times. All flight emissions offset.
is that nmplol at 2:10 ?
I had a .tk address as a teen back in the 00s. It utterly blew my mind back then that I could register a domain and put whatever I wanted on it for free!
You deserve more subscribers
I remember having like five different .tk domains back in 2007 when I first found out about it.
Amazing content it’s like if Tom Scott was an Australian 😂
Seems like it can be abused by unscrupulous people online when a link doesn’t look like a regular URL and people end up clicking it
This is my first comment ever on Youtube, and I just wanted to say what you are doing is really fascinating and you truly deserve a bigger audience. I can see myself becoming a fact nerd haha! Best wishes and keep up the good work mate. Cheers from a Melburnian!
Mate this is awesome content, thank you so much!
when I search it up nothing happens
Hey Julian 🙂
Long time Viewer, First time Commenter
Can you talk about the Eiffel Tower and why it’s illegal to take photos of it at night ?
.tv is a country whattt
Forgot to include a discussion of typosquatting and punycode phishing.
Another great video, thanks Julian!
Thanks Julian, as a Melbourne dweller and new subscriber I really enjoy your very well made and researched video’s.
The article you showed didn’t look too good for Tuvala internet royalties in 2011. Has it turned around?
I tried the domain name and it worked!
*EDIT:* I am in New Zealand!
We make rugby players and website domains
I can’t use the red hair man emote for the link I have to type out the punycode instead aaaa
Brilliant and fascinating as always
So all those kids with Fortnite names “TTV” is actually “twitch Tuvalu” 😂
interesting! another piece of trivia to tuck away into a corner of my brain 🧠
annoying thing about the emojis is that every company has different emojis and punycodes. most likely why they dont use them for domains
Pre covid travel obviously
That Tonic website was so delightfully 90’s, I loved it
Survive climate change…. ffs please simp.
Great video, bro! Good to see more Aussie youtubers. Subbed!
Domain doesn’t work
Website doesnt seem to work for me….
Chiner & Russier
This channel is a gem. I hope more and more people find out this
0:23 looks like trump
Pretty sure Yes Theory did a video on Tuvalu as well.
I love how the url redirects you to subscribe to you. Well played.
Say Talk-aa-low
He actually flew to some unknown little island to record a 6-minute video.
really well made video
Great video
Tuvala also make a lot of money by denominating silver and gold coins with their official Tuvaluan dollar which makes the coins more valuable to collectors because it’s marked in an official currency.
Great video, but from what I know of these countries (some study of these islands at tertiary level) your pronunciation of Tokelau and Tuvalu aren’t quite accurate.
As I understand it they are Tok-ee-lao and Too-var-loo.
Can anyone from these places confirm whether I’ve got that wrong or not?
he keeps saying it wrong lmao
I haven’t heard about tokelau since school. It’s one of the smallest countries in the world, in 2003 you could only visit it by boat from new Zealand once every 6 months. It’s four little islands and it already floods very easily.
So?
Great video
Great video.
this is a really good video
Can you supply a link to the map please?
Fascinating! I look forward to your rise up the YouTube ranks. You deserve to be up there with the greats
so thats how Darryl got his domain name! http://www.heyhey.tv
Of course he had to mention climate change. What does climate change have to do with domain names?