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.cv domains now on sale worldwide

Kevin Murphy, August 1, 2024, 16:30:47 (UTC), Domain Registries

Cabo Verde has become the latest nation to market its ccTLD globally based on its meaning in other languages.

The country’s .cv domain is now available via several registrars and recently formed registry entity OlaCV.

A CV is of course shorthand for “curriculum vitae”, what Americans call a résumé, in many countries. OlaCV reckons its addressable market is 3.5 billion people, according to its web site.

OlaCV appears to be a Delaware corporation formed in May last year, shortly before it was awarded the five-year registry contract by Cabo Verde regulator ARME.

You’d be hard-pressed to find any company information on its web site, but OlaCV appears to have its roots in Nigeria, with the ICANN-accredited registrar Go54 (formerly WhoGoHost).

WhoGoHost founder Ope Awoyemi, who has been doing domainer conferences recently, is named as president of the company in a press release today. IANA has the technical contact for .cv as Portuguese ccTLD operator DNS.pt.

Some of the international registrars named on the registry web site do not currently seem to support .cv on their storefronts, and prices vary substantially among those that do carry it.

While OlaCV say prices should be around $10 a year, the only registrar I could find selling in that range was NameSilo. Prices around $70 to $120 seem a lot more common right now.

The registry’s premium pricing strategy is a little different to the usual — domains of six characters and under have premium pricing, regardless of their semantic value.

Cabo Verde is an island nation in West Africa with a population of about half a million. A former colony of Portugal, Portuguese is the main official state language.


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