The global success of national domains of small states due to the coincidence of their names with popular abbreviations is not uncommon. We can recall the rise of the national domain of Tuvalu .TV, and the boom of the domain of the British Indian Ocean Territory .IO, and, of course, the most recent example is the huge popularity of the national domain of Anguilla .AI. Apparently, Cape Verde, an island state to the west of the African coast, a former colony of Portugal, now wants to follow this path.
As reported by the Domain Incite, OlaCV, which manages the national domain of this country, announced that it is opening the possibility of registering domain names to everyone. The calculation is quite clear: the name of the .CV domain coincides with the abbreviation of the Latin phrase curriculum vitae, which is translated as "course of life" or "biography." In many countries of the world, a CV is synonymous with a resume - the same one that job seekers send to a potential employer. According to estimates by the OlaCV, the potential audience of .CV may be up to 3.5 billion people.
It is curious, by the way, that the OlaCV itself does not seem to have any special connection to Cabo Verde. It was registered in the US state of Delaware in May last year, shortly after which the state regulator of the telecommunications sector of Cabo Verde, Agência de Regulação Multissectorial da Economia (ARME), granted it the rights to manage the country's national domain. The company's president on its website is listed as Nigerian Ope Awoyemi, known as the founder of the ICANN-accredited domain registrar WhoGoHost (now Go54). The technical operator of the domain zone in the IANA documents is DNS.pt, which performs the same functions for the national domain of Portugal.
The OlaCV message says that names in the .CV domain can be registered with most leading international registrar companies for about $10 per year. But, apparently, this information is, at the very least, ahead of the real state of affairs. So far, a significant number of leading registrar companies do not indicate on their websites the possibility of registering names in the .CV domain. And for those that do offer this opportunity, the cost of registration ranges from $70 to $120 per year.
