AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine
arstechnica.com
Tiny island country could rake in 10% of its GDP in domain sales this year.
  • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I remember someone saying the only way to make (real) money in crypto is to run a conference, I imagine AI will be the same for some time

  • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    IIRC Tuvalu got something like a $1 billion as a one-time payment for .tv and I figure .io has been fairly lucrative for British Indian Ocean.

    I have mixed feelings about small island nations selling their DNS identity out like this but I guess milking tech dweebs for all they’re worth is in a certain sense cool and good actually.

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I have never understood the .io domain name fad. “ah this site must do something vaguely software development-related, their name is glorksplush dot input output” what

      • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Shoulda guessed from the name “British Indian Ocean” it’s a region mired in the most heinous imperialist bullshit.

        I wish the colonists a very nice time and I hope very comical things happen to them from the point of view of the Chagossians.