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

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Post by berkes »

gary_0 wrote: post #38
mholt wrote: post #15

I'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 would have said to just use dot-org once upon at time, but then this happened: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-2020-... In the meantime, at least thepiratebay.org is still up... and now that I think of it, it's a good canary for the integrity of dot-org.

It is blocked on a provider level by some jurisdictions, though. This is what I see in .nl:

https://imgur.com/a/4A0PsHh

Translated title is: > This page has been made inaccessible by court order.

So I think the integrity of .org is of little consequence if traffic to it gets blocked on provider level.

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

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Post by madsbuch »

onionisafruit wrote: post #143
madsbuch wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Why would people tax themselves when they don’t need to?

I can recommend you to look into the Norwegian case and study general economics. There is a hole repository of knowledge you'd need in order to understand why taxation is important.

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

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Post by madsbuch »

gwern wrote: post #52
madsbuch wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is a surprisingly good argument that me as a Danish person in a well functioning society with almost no corruption forgets.

However, one could hope for a bit more ambition on these matters :)

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

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Post by rimliu »

Astraco wrote: post #125
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…

Soviet Union (.su) it's still around. Even if Tuvalu disappears (it won't) someone else would take care of the TLD.

В связи с геополитическими изменениями домен pos.su переименован в pos.ru

Kind of a stranger fart joke, what it says is that because of the geopolitical changes the domains will be renamed. But the first one can be read as "I'll piss" and the second one "I'll poop".

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

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Post by AlecSchueler »

freetonik wrote: post #180
isolli wrote: post #171

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....

Huh, it's strange that UN membership costs money.

How else would they fund it?

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

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Post by xigoi »

owl57 wrote: post #138
xigoi wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

> Does he speak any Slavic languages?

Well yes, but not one that uses the Cyrillic alphabet or has this word.

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

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Post by toyg »

freetonik wrote: post #180
isolli wrote: post #171

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....

Huh, it's strange that UN membership costs money.

The UN has a number of programs which cost money; even just the maintenance of the building and staff costs money. There is a formula they use to "harmonize" contributions by population, gdp etc.

From the documents, it looks like Tuvalu contributes $ 2,500 p/y to the Working Capital Fund (i.e. reserves) and about $ 40,000 p/y to the regular budget (which is periodically modified and approved depending on needs of the various programs, and collected yearly from member countries, with unspent leftovers returned to them).

If these look like paltry sums, it's because they are. No wonder the Gates Foundation is squarely in the top-20 UN donors.

For comparison, some of the biggest contributors are the US (55m to Working Capital Fund, 750m to yearly budget), China (38m and 500m) and Japan (20m and 220m), although the highest per-capita contributions amoung sizeable countries are Norway and Sweden.

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

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Post by fakedang »

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?

I see that as an absolute win. Your CX is so good you'll bend over for your client.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

jedberg wrote: post #106
reactordev wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m sure since it would no longer be a country TLD, you could easily say it’s a media TLD. Crisis averted. However, registrar responsibilities would be elsewhere. Google perhaps. Or maybe someone else. I’m sure that .tv is so ubiquitous that it falls under several categories.

That would be a possible solution but they would have to agree to change the rules for TLDs or make an exception, because right now the rules are very clear that only countries can have two letter TLDs.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

lutoma wrote: post #117
jedberg wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be a possible solution but they would have to agree to change the rules for TLDs or make an exception, because right now the rules are very clear that only countries can have two letter TLDs.

* and the EU, and Antarctica (.aq)

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