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.ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

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Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

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Post by yieldcrv »

p4bl0 wrote: post #7

> It’s about US $3 million per month. We do the domains for two years, and so all of our money now is new domains. And if we just stay at this level of $3 million per month for new domains, when the renewals kick in a year from now, we’ll just jump to $6 million per month. Is it actually reasonable to expect a steady $3M of domain creation over such a long period of time? AI is really trendy right now so a lot of pro…

tough to say but lots of trends didn't go away they just died down

.io never went away for tech

you'd think the mobile app development bubble would have popped 10 years ago but it just kept going despite not really delivering value to most people that feel that they need one

2020's .finance is still popping in the crypto space, notably many, maybe even most of those ideas do make revenue for the creator, in comparison to a random registration on a whim that sits in stasis forever

I can see the same for .ai domains

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Post by mholt »

I've said it before [0-4], I'll say it again -- mind your TLD. They have about as much control and influence over your traffic as a VPN, except even your users are at their mercy. Do not choose a TLD based on trends.

[0]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1686148772831846402 "TLDs are almost as bad as VPNs in terms of the magnitude of trust you need to commit to another entity for your online survival. Always do thorough research before choosing a TLD."

[1]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1613228573015568386 "TLD registries set their own prices. PS: .io is operated by Indian Ocean Territory. Then, "In 2017, a researcher managed to take control of four of the seven authoritative name servers for the .io domain.""

[2]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1688603657716248576 "Every company I consult with, I advise them to choose TLDs like you would email providers, web hosts, VPNs, and ISPs! They carry heavy risks."

[3]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/900740252498665472 "(Note the 1500% increase in price for the .hosting TLD.)"

[4]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1598092186024755200 "Many TLDs are unregulated and put your business at risk"

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Post by whalesalad »

mholt wrote: post #15

I've said it before [0-4], I'll say it again -- mind your TLD. They have about as much control and influence over your traffic as a VPN, except even your users are at their mercy. Do not choose a TLD based on trends. [0]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1686148772831846402 "TLDs are almost as bad as VPNs in terms of the magnitude of trust you need to commit to another entity for your online survival. Always do thor…

Basing your entire business on a ccTLD is very risky. All it takes is a coup and boom you’re toast.

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Post by jszymborski »

whycome wrote: post #18

Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?

.io quite infamously

https://www.thewebmaster.com/archived/io-tld-top-level-domai...

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Post by bonzini »

whycome wrote: post #18

Tuvalu (.tv), Libya (.ly), Anguilla (.ai). Matt of wordpress got ma.tt (Trinidad & Tobago). Some countries (eg, Canada) require some kind of residency. What other TLDs are special?

.cc (Cocos Island) was used most famously by Arduino.

.cx (Christmas Island) domains were relatively common some 20 years ago, iirc because of some dynamic DNS provider.

And of course .io is the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean territories

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