US EditionAnguilla’s .ai Domain Boom Yields $39M Revenue in 2024
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Anguilla, an island in the Caribbean, is benefiting millions from the sale of websites on the Internet. All because, on the internet's premise, it was lucky to close the term ".ai".
How Anguilla's .ai Domain Became the Caribbean's Hottest Export
Born in the dial-up era, Anguilla’s .ai internet domain now generates more revenue than some of the island’s tropical resorts. Riding the artificial intelligence wave, this two-letter code is reshaping a small island’s future—powering hospitals, roads, and digital resilience with every registration. When a Country Code Turns into Gold Back in the 1980s, when the … The post How Anguilla’s .ai Domain Became the Caribbean’s Hottest Export appeared …
When the internet was taking its first steps in the 1980s, no one could have predicted that the internet domains assigned to countries would become a source of enormous revenue. For the small Caribbean island of Anguilla, which has been assigned the ".ai" suffix, this story turned out to be a veritable gold mine.
Anguilla, a British overseas territory known for its paradise beaches and luxury tourism, has unexpectedly become one of the beneficiaries of the global artificial intelligence boom. All thanks to its internet address – the .ai domain – which is now generating millions of dollars in revenue for the island.
In the 1980s, when the Internet was just starting to develop, countries around the world had their own two-letter domain names. Now, the tiny Caribbean island nation of Anguilla has a new source of income thanks to a domain name it acquired at that time. The domain name of Anguilla, which is considered an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, is “ai.” It is an abbreviation for “artificial intelligence.” In recent years, artificial intelligen…
Anguilla’s .ai Domain Boom Yields $39M Revenue in 2024
In the sun-drenched Caribbean, where turquoise waters meet pristine beaches, the tiny British overseas territory of Anguilla has quietly transformed into an unlikely powerhouse in the artificial intelligence economy. This shift stems not from silicon chips or data centers, but from a fortuitous two-letter code: .ai, the country’s top-level internet domain. Assigned randomly in the 1990s by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,…
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