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Niue has a population of ~1600. That's a lot of tlds per capita. It's not obvious to me why dns should be a way of transferring money from populous countries to
by im3w1l 6y ago
Niue has a population of ~1600. That's a lot of tlds per capita. It's not obvious to me why dns should be a way of transferring money from populous countries to sparsely populated countries.
- teruakohatu 6y agoMany (not all) small islands also have a disproportionately large EEZ. Why should that depend on population anymore than domain names? > transferring money from populous countries to sparsely populated countries. If small countries have something large countries want then what is wrong with transferring money.
- suifbwish 6y agoThe thing is they don’t have it anymore. They are crying and asking for it back now that it became valuable.
- bovermyer 6y agoThat almost sounds like you think sparsely populated countries don't deserve money, even if it's rightfully theirs by international law.
- im3w1l 6y agoIt sounds like they signed away rights and are now trying to make a moral argument to claw them back. So it think it's totally fair to bring other moral arguments to the table.
- JJMcJ 6y agoPer the article they didn't even sign away, the .nu domain was just given to somebody.
- im3w1l 6y ago> While Niue signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Semich around that time, it quickly backtracked, claiming it did not understand what it was agreeing to or the financial benefit control of the webspace could confer. Anyway I'm no longer sure I hold the opinion that kicked this thread off, but I want to include that quote to clear up the facts.
- suifbwish 6y agoWhy would you say they didn’t sign it away when it’s clearly been quoted several times verbatim in the article and this thread that the country DID sign it away? Is this thread full of shills?
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