This tiny South Pacific nation owns one of the most lucrative internet suffixes in the world

This tiny South Pacific nation owns one of the most lucrative internet suffixes in the world
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This week, Amazon purchased Twitch — a company that live-streams people playing video games as if they were sports — for $1.1 billion, training a spolight not only on the lucrative world of online gaming, but on web-streaming services like Twitch that use .tv as an internet suffix.

Because of a wrinkle in internet history, that suffix is owned by Tuvalu, a South Pacific island nation whose total land mass is about 10 square miles. The New York Times explains:

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Ryu Spaeth

Ryu Spaeth is deputy editor at TheWeek.com. Follow him on Twitter.