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Island sells web address to buy UN membership [0]
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/10/business....
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…
> which provide 95% of Tuvalu's GDP Source? I've never seen this number before. I've seen 8.4% of government revenue, and ~1/12 of GNI but never 95% of GDP...
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/10/business....
Beyond the risk associated with using a ccTLD, I've noticed that several Fortune 100 companies are now outright blocking .ai domains because they host content believed to potentially leak intellectual property, especially within the financial services industry. This is something to consider if you're launching a new product targeting such customers and want to avoid having architects/engineers go through the hassle o…
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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...)
OK I know this sounds kind of shitty but hear me out for the sake of argument. If there is some political issue and say .ai domains are taken over, what's stopping IANA from just taking over that TLD and moving the zone to some other entity? Most domains there are owned by international business and some IANA members might want to keep them running.
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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?
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"They’ve eliminated property taxes on residential buildings." What a great thing for the country.
> What a great thing for the country. Not necessarily. The risk with any kind of external subsidy is that it may not last forever. Imagine if that happened wherever you live. Once everyone's accustomed to $0 in property tax, what would happen if you suddenly had to put those taxes back in place? Would it stall the economy if the tax burden was high enough? IMHO, the best way to deal with windfall money like that is t…
Which is lasting. Arguably more so than a trust fund.
In a similar vein, Tuvalu finally joined the UN in 2000 after monetizing the .tv domain in 1998. It could not afford the membership previously. Island sells web address to buy UN membership [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/10/business....