The company (www.tv) charges $50 a year to register a name in the.tv domain but reserves the right to charge "premium prices" for what it considers more valuable names.
For each domain name in its database, Verisign charges the registrars -- the companies that prospective owners pay to secure domain names -- a few dollars a year to manage each name.
A couple of decades ago, a friend who is a son of a Politburo member was paid several hundred thousand dollars a year to lend his name to a Chinese company so that it could get cheap land from local governments.
It was expected they would provide some reassurance to a company paying £9m a year to have their name across United's red shirts.
What is certain is that registrars like VeriSign generally charge no more than $35 a year to register a domain name.
The conductor of this premiere was Hans von Bülow, whose wife, Cosima, had given birth in April that year to a daughter, named Isolde, a child not of Bülow but of Wagner.
"I thought I'd give myself a year to attempt a music career," says Pip, real name David Mead.
The Conservancy, which works to preserve natural habitats throughout Africa, invites a celebrity every year to name a new species discovered in conservation areas.
Moore has been a Big Brother for nearly 9 years to a boy named Christopher, who is now a high school senior eager to explore science.
Delta allows members of its SkyMiles program to purchase up to 15,000 miles a year in a plan named Buy Miles (online at www.delta.com/skymiles/buymiles/index.jsp).jsp
They began acting with the Stanislavsky Theater Studio in Washington, but broke away after a few years to start Synetic — a name that Mr. Tsikurishvili coined by fusing syllables of two words, synthesis and kinetic, that he thought captured their aesthetic.
