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Many of the small countries such as Tuvalu and Samoa allow the public to register
in their top-level domains. For example, the top-level domain.tv has been registered
by many television companies.
To be able to connect to the Internet, it is necessary for an organization to register
to one of the top-level domains. e organization needs to submit its name to ICANN
for approval. Once the name is approved by ICANN, the organization’s name is regis-
tered under a selected top-level domain. After it is registered in the top-level domain,
the organization can add more lower level names under the top-level doma ...