.bv the Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority and follow the same policy as . Bouvet Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It was claimed by Norway in 1927. The domain was allocated on 21 August 1997, at the same time was allocated for Svalbard and Jan Mayen. The allocation occurred because the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigns ccTLDs to all entities with an ISO 3166 code, for which Bouvet Island is designated . In June 2015, Norwegian computer scientist Håkon Wium Lie and the Socialist Left Party proposed using the domain, along with , as
Bouvet Triple Junction Conrad transform and Bouvet transform. Conrad transform is named after . Bouvet Island is the highest point on the southern wall of the Bouvet transform. Up to 10 million years ago the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the two deep transform valleys of Conrad and Bouvet met in one point. Thus the triple junction was of the ridge-fault-fault (RFF) type. Conrad transform, stretching to the west, connected the end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to the South American-Antarctic Ridge. Bouvet transform linked it to the Southwest Indian Ridge on the eastern side. Currently Conrad transform and Bouvet transform are no longer connected to