.gotv Domain

Digital terrestrial television across sub-Saharan Africa framed the .gotv application in ICANN's 2012 New gTLD Program. It belonged to a substantial family of related media strings filed together by a single African broadcasting group, covering platforms, channels, and services — one of the largest coordinated multi-string applications in the round from outside the major Western and East Asian markets.

Pay-television in markets with widespread unauthorised redistribution carries a sharper anti-piracy case than most: subscribers reaching for a streaming source have little basis for telling an official service from a pirate one. The extension is not currently active in the DNS root zone and is not available for registration by any party.