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10% of Anguilla's GDP is .ai domain fees (2023)
- cs702 3y agoThe domain fees now exceed $30M/year and population is under 16K, so call it $2K/year per capita. Assuming average family size of 3.5, it's $7K/year per family. That's real money, in exchange for doing nothing. Anguilla has the top-level domain ".ai" by luck!
- educaysean 3y agoSome nations have fossil oil deposits, some nations have cool TLDs
- nojvek 3y ago16k population. Wow! Must be a chill place.
- altdataseller 3y agoHot take but I think the .ai tld will become out of style, and even a turnoff in a few years. Especially if a lot of AI tools end up falling short of expectations, and make embarrassing mistakes. Users will be grow tired of hearing something is using AI
- Panino 3y ago.io used to be trendy but no more, and now some people feel stuck on expensive domains.
- duxup 3y agoI let my .io domains expire and moved some things when .io cranked up the registration fees.
- laborcontract 3y agoSo like dot com?
- papichulo2023 3y agoStill the most professional one?
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- clort 3y agoI'm kind of surprised that it is so significant, though I don't know the scale.. I went to Anguilla ~25yrs ago in a small sailing boat, lovely place and lovely people but as I understood it they were mainly into offshore banking, which should really dwarf domain registrations. Perhaps offshore banking has been cleaned up? I don't think they are big on tourism, they preferred to have fewer high cost hotels than lots of people visiting..
- ianburrell 3y agoAnguilla only has 15K people and GDP of $307 million. They are tax haven but a small one, and it may not contribute much to GDP.
- tivert 3y agoTotally random thing I just noticed looking around the Caribbean with Google Maps: 1. Apparently regular people can upload street views to Google? https://www.google.com/streetview/contribute/ https://www.google.com/streetview/contribute/ 2. The Puerto Rico tourism board did this and branded their street view panoramas: https://www.google.com/maps/@18.3101092,-65.2949864,3a,75y,50.34h,1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAF1QipMiuB7nZonPD2mB1n0rgvOIioiCLMMn-Cu-YvsA!2e10!7i10560!8i5280?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@18.3101092,-65.2949864,3a,75y,5...
- CobrastanJorji 3y agoIf domain fees counted as "exports," they would be Anguilla's main export. In fact, that reclassification would nearly quadruple their exports.
- duxup 3y agoCute TLDs as part of a company's brand always make me wonder ... is it just brand or is there any meat here? It might not be a fair thing to think but I can't help but think of that.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoI think it’s often because the namespace of cute TLDs is less crowded.
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- ChrisArchitect 3y ago(2023) More recently lots of discussion: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39194477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39194477
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoAnd related flipside: Not all TLDs are Created Equal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39367540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39367540
- aunty_helen 3y agoThis sort of news reminds me of that scene in The Big Short.
- renegat0x0 3y agoFor example: - https://www.mozilla.ai/ https://www.mozilla.ai/ - https://sdk.vercel.ai/ https://sdk.vercel.ai/ - https://x.ai/ https://x.ai/