If you enjoy that one - you might also enjoy https://www.ck/
The lengths the Cook Islands have to go to prevent folks from registering profanity is entertaining (there was a spate of .co.ck novelty names before they locked it down)
A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003
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#12ai was also one of the ccTLDs that had an MX record for a long time, and I believe (although never had reason to confirm) actually used it. foo@ai tended to be a fun test case for e-mail validation.
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#13Not sure if my memory is faulty on this one, quick search didnt turn anything up. Didn't some of the cypherpunks move out to anguila to avoid the crypto export bans during the first crypto wars?
That's a real bold move, climate-wise. It's an island whose highest point is about 200 feet (65 metres) above sea level, and it's smack-dab in the middle of the hurricane highway...
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#14Pure HTML and CSS. Performant and accessible, as things should be. We must return to the fundamentals.
> We must return to the fundamentals. While I too would prefer it, I realize it is an idealist fantasy at this point.
The major corporations will never do it, but we can do it on our own private projects.
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#15Not sure if my memory is faulty on this one, quick search didnt turn anything up. Didn't some of the cypherpunks move out to anguila to avoid the crypto export bans during the first crypto wars?
That's a real bold move, climate-wise. It's an island whose highest point is about 200 feet (65 metres) above sea level, and it's smack-dab in the middle of the hurricane highway...
Yes, to answer my own question like an adult, some did!
Vince Cate moved there to work on export-banned crypto, renouncing his citizenship and would start an ISP on the island after the banks rejected his electronic money ideas. This could have been PayPal in another timeline? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Cate
the e-Gold people met there on an occasion, and Robert Hettinga and MIT researcher Rafael Hirschfield started the International Conference on Financial Cryptography in Anguila. https://news.ai/ref/crypto98.html
So not in droves but it was a place, as it were.
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#16I just wanna say this is a such dope domain lol. How much does it cost?
Oh yeah? Check out https://news.ai/
Now it looks like restaurant adverts. Maybe not much happens there any longer.
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#17I used to work for an IoT startup that really wanted the domain mq.tt. And in that era, Trinidad and Tobago's national domain administrator would only conduct business in-person, and required payment by international money order.
A facilitator was found, a deal was negotiated, and then the lawyers got involved and went "no way in hell will we let the company's primary domain renewal rely on someone walking a money order into an office in Trinidad". C'est la vie
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#18I used to work for an IoT startup that really wanted the domain mq.tt. And in that era, Trinidad and Tobago's national domain administrator would only conduct business in-person, and required payment by international money order. A facilitator was found, a deal was negotiated, and then the lawyers got involved and went "no way in hell will we let the company's primary domain renewal rely on someone walking a money or…
Sad that the guys that had to break the news were legal and not IT, we need a set of balls, and basic legal training.
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#19I used to work for an IoT startup that really wanted the domain mq.tt. And in that era, Trinidad and Tobago's national domain administrator would only conduct business in-person, and required payment by international money order. A facilitator was found, a deal was negotiated, and then the lawyers got involved and went "no way in hell will we let the company's primary domain renewal rely on someone walking a money or…
Sad that the guys that had to break the news were legal and not IT, we need a set of balls, and basic legal training.
to be fair, I think all the tech guys knew it wasn't likely to fly, but they were all onboard to give it the old college try
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#20If you enjoy that one - you might also enjoy https://www.ck/
That domain looks very interesting in the address bar of a mobile browser which hides the www prefix.