Analysis One of the internet’s most lucrative and high-profile registry contracts is up for grabs – and once again the bidding process appears to be highly problematic.

The contract to run .tv has been held by dot-com operator Verisign for 20 years. This agreement expires this year, and Tuvalu, the small island state that owns the top-level domain, has decided to seek a rebid.

The Tuvalu government has chosen to run that process in secret, however: an unusual decision given its ministers have actively sought press coverage of .tv's future in the past few months, approaching mainstream US media outlets,

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