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?
.rs (Serbia) for Rust projects.
.ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
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Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#52This is a great article. It's an interesting phenomenon. How did the `.tv` boom work out? Anyone know registration rates for that domain over time? We are in a big wave of AI hype so the registrations are going to be many for now... """ And it’s just part of the general budget—the government can use it however they want. But I’ve noticed that they’ve paid down some of their debt, which is pretty unusual. They’ve elim…
A shame they don't manage that inflow of money particularly well. Instead of giving tax cuts they should treat it like Norway treats income from oil and make a sovereign wealth fund – oh well...
When you're a small incompetent corrupt country, a sovereign wealth fund is the last thing you want. Like dumping gasoline on a fire. Whereas cutting taxes - well, it may not be optimal, but it's harder to corrupt, is transparent and publicly observable, and easy to implement.
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#53I wish they didn't require a minimum of 2 years for domain registrations.
The reason you wish they didn't require a 2-year prepayment is the same reason they probably want to impose that requirement.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
.tk was all the rage when I was younger, early 2000s something. You got a top level domain for free! Of course, they would just serve your webpage through a frameset with ads surrounding it unless you paid. But it rocked being able to say "visit my webpage matsemann.tk" instead of home.no.net/users/~matsemann/ (~ on Norwegian keyboard needs an alt+gr combo plus pressing space to show, and back in the days having to e…
OMG this really brings back some memories. I totally forgot about that .tk iframe thing. Wasn't it in the late 90s?
Was still a thing in the late 2000s, at least in my (european) internet bubble at the time.
This was also one of the only ways for a broke middle schooler without a credit card to get a cool "real" domain.
Combine it with dyndns, self-host some ancient-but-free bulletin-board software (Woltlab Burning Board may ring a bell for the European / German audience) after learning about this "Apache2" and "mod_php" thing and your small slice of internet with 10 users max is done. Good times. :D
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
.co (Colombia) is a fairly popular alternative to .com. .fi (Finland) was used by crypto/web3 companies during the 2021-22 hype cycle because it associates with finance (as in DeFi = decentralized finance). .is (Iceland) and .at (Austria) are English words and can be used for cleverish domains that form sentences in URLs, as in: this.is/amazing
.gy (Guyana) may have some life (grun.gy, lethar.gy ?)
Domain power combo:
big.dk + ener.gy
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#56Tuvalu (.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
I remember .cc being marketed as "the new .com" 20 years ago or so. Never did see many .cc domains.
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#57I'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…
I think the most obvious, "This isn't going to work out," was queer.af losing their domain name, because the Taliban doesn't take kindly to queer folk.
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#58Tuvalu (.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?
Afghanistan (.af)
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#59> 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 compariso…
.io is simply the new .net, what you get when you can't get .com but don't want to rename. Although .io and .ai are really expensive so I wouldn't be surprised if something new comes up.
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#60I'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…
I wish TLDs were decentralized so that goofy stuff like this would never happen. It (having companies and entities own and control TLDs) never should have happened in the first place.