The thread and humble opinions, thoughts, comments that you reference is dated, 06-20-2003 (three years ago!) ... and very little has changed for me, personally, insofar as the evolution (you might refer to it as growth) of the ".TV" domain name extension, purely for Wholesale resales/speculation IMHO.
I will say, however, that .TV's (along with some of the other lesser extensions) CAN be nicely developed - of course this adding value to the core domain(s), in my view. I hope to see more of these developed sites in the next three years (and hopefully you will then quote these errors of our way, as well)!
By amusing, you must mean - at least partly - my post dated:
Righto, I agree ... God bless to those citizens of Tuvalu!
Here is an informative link (see "Global Warning"), as well ... http://www.tuvaluislands.com (though it seems the site originates in Canada (.CA still, I believe), and right-hand .TV advertisement reads, "Get Tuvalu's top-level indernet domain."