"Paul B. Webster VK2BZC" wrote:
>
>   Does it benefit Tonga to be so sold off (or similarly Cocos and
> Keeling Islands, ".cc" or a few others)?  I don't know.

A Toronto company purchased the top level domain name from Tuvalu
(.tv).  They hoped to make a lot of money marketing domain names to the
Hollywood crowd (baywatch.tv).

A while ago somebody posted this link for the country codes:
  http://www.cep.unt.edu/codes.html

--Matt