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

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Post by paulddraper »

Etheryte wrote: post #97
yieldcrv wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in my world that was true 10 years ago, except it wasnt a cop out: nobody needed .coms but nobody knew it yet because of prevailing wisdom over here .xyz is the new .io and nobody cares about the tld that much at all if you’re relying on users to type in your domain name, or SEO, or some form of legitimacy with an equally as antiquated crowd, you’ve already failed and need to scrap the idea

Singular data point, but I don't think I've ever seen a company that I would take seriously use .xyz.

Double data point here.

In fact, unless you're selling to techies, it's dubious to operate a US business on anything but .com.

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

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Post by ek750 »

dcl wrote: post #66
whycome wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fully suspect .CX to see a resurgence as the short form for "customer experience" is really expanding quickly.

How many people would recall goatse every time they saw it though?

not many I suspect, but enough. :)

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

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Post by rlayton2 »

paulddraper wrote: post #131
Etheryte wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Singular data point, but I don't think I've ever seen a company that I would take seriously use .xyz.

Double data point here. In fact, unless you're selling to techies, it's dubious to operate a US business on anything but .com.

Aussie here, we try to get both the .com and the .com.au (and now also the .au), because people will just use one or the other, regardless of what the link says.

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Post by gwern »

dpflan wrote: post #87
gwern wrote: post #52

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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.

Not following the phrasing: "Whereas cutting taxes - well, it may not be optimal, but it's harder to corrupt, is transparent and publicly observable, and easy to implement." Cutting taxes is harder to corrupt? The removal of taxes is good because the country can't properly collect taxes in the first place?

Indeed. "Please pay us 100 rubles for house tax." "But house tax was abolished last year thanks to the AI revenues!" "Er..."

> The removal of taxes is good because the country can't properly collect taxes in the first place?

Sure. Look at Russia's infamous 'tax audits'. ("For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.") And then deadweight losses, overhead from dodging it, stuff being driven in to blackmarkets, manipulation of tax regs (the more complicated the better) to subsidize connected oligarchs... The more nominally powerful but incompetent a government is, the worse.

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Post by palad1n »

jonathankoren wrote: post #58
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?

Afghanistan (.af)

Does anybody have one of these? I tried to register one once and the registrar just wouldn't let me.

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

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Post by judge2020 »

stuartd wrote: post #25
judge2020 wrote: post #9

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http://ai./ still works and links to registrar services

http://ai works on a desktop browser and opens the same page - this is the page it used to open - https://web.archive.org/web/20220316164406/http://ai/

Not for me, this might be a quirk with Chrome on AT&T using the router's DNS. It does a dns lookup for ai.attlocal.net to find it on the network, instead of appending the trailing dot like it should.

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Post by jetpks »

whycome wrote: post #24
jszymborski wrote: post #19

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

I legit didn't realize that .io was a TLD for a country/state. Also, that article is wild! In the future, we'll have a coup in some country and it will cause web chaos just from the TLD issue. (I've seen first-hand how some countries handle their ccTLDs...)

i have a .af (afghanistan) domain that will expire next month. i can't renew it because the registrar isn't able to make contact with anyone at their noc since the US pulled out.

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

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Post by owl57 »

xigoi wrote: post #123
loktarogar wrote: post #91

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I only seem to see .xyz in the crypto space (and alphabet inc). Generally it's a crypto scam pushed at me in a twitter/x ad. What are some other players on the .xyz tld?

One of the lecturers at my faculty has his academic website on an .xyz domain.

Does he speak any Slavic languages? I know a Russian lecturer who does that in part because he considers it funny to use a TLD that looks similar to the obscene word "хуй".

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

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Post by rexreed »

nevi-me wrote: post #115

It's great that they're repaying gov debts. If the revenue levels ever decrease, the people will be better off. Vince Cate sounds decent, ethical and honourable. Other people would be ripping the government off.

Vince has quite the unique and colorful background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Cate
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