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in thread Verisign Hijack all possible .com .net domains and destroy Email::Valid, Net::DNS, gethostbyname() etc

To be fair, Tuvalu (the .tv country,) is leasing their ccTLD. I remembered reading about it when it happened.
The good old CIA World Factbook mentions this item here.