It is the most remote island in the world.
Its nearest inhabited neighbor isTristan da Cunha, an isolated spot by itself, located 2,260 kilometers away.
Bouvet Island is less than 50 square kilometers in size and is almost entirely covered by a glacier.
But underneath that ice lies a fiery volcano thats still warm to the touch, so to speak.
Since the last eruption, some four thousand years ago, everything has frozen over.
Now the island is home to thousands of penguins and dozens of species of seabirds.
It also has a weather station, and its own top-level Internet domain.
These are the most commonly used generic TLDs.
In addition, every country has a two-letter domain name associated with it.
A notable exception is the .tv domain.
Royalties from .tv addresses now account for ten percent of the countrys revenue.
Now Bouvet Island is not a sovereign nation.
It is also uninhabited.
Yet, it has a top-level domain .bv.
How did this happen?
All independent nations and any dependent territory with sufficient autonomy got assigned a two-letter code.
Gibraltar, in other words, is an autonomous territory.
It is assigned the country code GI.
Another example is Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.
Guam has the country code GU.
To be fair, Bouvet Island is not the only uninhabited island with its own top-level domain.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are also uninhabited with the domain .hm.
