$3M per month, 15k residents, so roughly $200 per resident per month. Not bad.
"They’ve eliminated property taxes on residential buildings."
What a great thing for the country.
.ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
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Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 legit didn't realize that .io was a TLD for a country/state. All two-letter TLDs are. Now that you know the pattern, you'll be able to identify all the other ccTLDs as well.
For some definition of country/state that includes .eu and such...
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#63I'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 wish TLDs were decentralized so that goofy stuff like this would never happen. It (having companies and entities own and control TLDs) never should have happened in the first place.
I don't think it's a bad thing that a country has control over it's TLD. Using `.ai` is overloading the proper use case for that TLD.
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#64Domain registration used to be free until like 1995 or so. Crazy what it has become.
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#65Tuvalu (.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?
.cat (Catalunya) is frequently used by fans of the animal Cat, but it's for websites that "have a significant amount of contents in Catalan" - https://domini.cat/en/faqs/
.nu (Niue) was originally owned by a Niue non-profit in Massachusetts, US, but was later transferred into Swedish ownership as "nu" means "now" in Swedish and lots of websites in Sweden were using it.
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
.cc (Cocos Island) was used most famously by Arduino. .cx (Christmas Island) domains were relatively common some 20 years ago, iirc because of some dynamic DNS provider. And of course .io is the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean territories
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?
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#67I'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 think the most obvious, "This isn't going to work out," was queer.af losing their domain name, because the Taliban doesn't take kindly to queer folk.
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Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#68Earlier 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...
Right, "remove taxes because of domain sales!"...not a good long-term strategy
Yes, and since it's property taxes it also means that this money is redistributed to people already wealthy enough to own their house or apartment (and most probably those that others rent)…
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#69I'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 wish TLDs were decentralized so that goofy stuff like this would never happen. It (having companies and entities own and control TLDs) never should have happened in the first place.
Countries should have their own TLDs, but they should be more obvious and/or not available to the public.
Re: .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
#70Tuvalu (.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?
.cc (Cocos Island) was used most famously by Arduino. .cx (Christmas Island) domains were relatively common some 20 years ago, iirc because of some dynamic DNS provider. And of course .io is the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean territories
Lots of shady stuff early 2000s were using .cc as well. Don't remember specifically what niche though.