Striking Gold With Domain Names 

Italy’s “.it” seems like it ought to be more valuable.

Way back in the ’80s and ’90s, two-character top-level domains (TLDs) like “.us” were assigned to countries and other sovereign states. Many decades later, some very tiny places are reaping financial windfalls with TLDs like “.tv” (Tuvalu, population ~11,000) and “.ai” (Anguilla, population ~16,000).