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

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Post by shric »

omeid2 wrote: post #149
rlayton2 wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think opening up .au was criminal. Same as the .uk one. Investor value at the cost of hurting small business by increasing cost or creating confusion.

I realize you're referring specifically to general .au, but I don't think the average person will think to try foo.au instead of foo.com.au and .com.au isn't opened up to my knowledge. The name must be derived from your registered Australian business (ACN or ABN).

I've had a .net.au since 1999 and the same rules apply there.

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

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Post by phire »

broodbucket wrote: post #104
jedberg wrote: post #96

A really big looming question is what will happen to all the .tv domains, which provide 95% of Tuvalu's GDP (similar to how .ai is for Anguilla). The island is getting warn away by rougher seas and the ocean level is rising thanks to climate change. What happens when the island no longer exists? Does the country still exist? Should the .tv domain still exist? When Yugoslavia broke up they shut down its TLD, but this…

.su still exists. According to this article I found, Tuvaluans are trying to maintain their statehood and maritime rights once they no longer have land. It's uncharted territory for the UN but it strikes me as pretty likely (plus it's a bad look to not throw a bone to a country that the rest of the world played a part in destroying). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/11/tuvalu-seeks-t... My prediction is the…

Tuvalu is also working on a land reclamation project that is designed to keep at least some land above the projected storm surges beyond the year 2100.

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

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Post by pyuser583 »

jedberg wrote: post #96

A really big looming question is what will happen to all the .tv domains, which provide 95% of Tuvalu's GDP (similar to how .ai is for Anguilla). The island is getting warn away by rougher seas and the ocean level is rising thanks to climate change. What happens when the island no longer exists? Does the country still exist? Should the .tv domain still exist? When Yugoslavia broke up they shut down its TLD, but this…

Tuvalu is getting larger, not smaller. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1

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

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Post by p1mrx »

matsemann wrote: post #28
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?

.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…

> through a frameset with ads surrounding it unless you paid

Or used JavaScript tricks to hide the ads, or redirect the outer page to an ad-free URL. I know you could do the former on cjb.net, but perhaps .tk required the latter.

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Post by notzane »

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?

.fm for radio and music related sites (Federated States of Micronesia)

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

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Post by arthurcolle »

robbiejs wrote: post #164

There is also the .je domain name, I think for Jersey Islands. "je" can be appended to most Dutch words making it "smaller". For example Hond (dog) Hondje (small dog) I own the domain name https://site.je . I wanted to put a cms on it. It's up for sale btw :-)

this site just doesn't do it for me. and for that reason, I'm out

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

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Post by alentred »

Can't help but notice the minimalism of the DataHaven.net web site [0] (the company that handles the sales). Obviously they don't need it as a storefront, and yet it contrasts so much with how modern business operate. Just recently there was an "Ask HN" about it [1] ("Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?").

[0] http://datahaven.net/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154380

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

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Post by jesprenj »

robbiejs wrote: post #164

There is also the .je domain name, I think for Jersey Islands. "je" can be appended to most Dutch words making it "smaller". For example Hond (dog) Hondje (small dog) I own the domain name https://site.je . I wanted to put a cms on it. It's up for sale btw :-)

"Je" in slovene also translates to "is" in English. Since adverbs are written before verbs in slovene, it's a nice hack to use http://okusno.je (a recipe website), which translates to "[It] is tasty".
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