US EditionAnguilla: The Caribbean Island Making Millions From the AI Boom
Anguilla's .ai domain registrations generated $32 million in 2023, with over 859,000 domains registered by August 2025, boosting the island's economy significantly.
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Tech founder Dharmesh Shah paid Anguilla $700,000 to use the .ai domain
Dharmesh Shah speaks at INBOUND 2024 Powered By HubSpot in September 2024.Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpotAnguilla owns the .ai web domain, which has become lucrative in the AI boom.Websites with the .ai domain have exploded in recent years, rising dramatically in 2025.Tech founder Dharmesh Shah paid the country $700,000 to use the domain for you.ai.Anguilla hit the jackpot with its national website domain.Although US residents are likely use…
Tiny Caribbean Island Anguilla Banks Big with .AI Domain Revenue
The Government of Anguilla reported that revenue from its “.ai” internet domain surged to $39 million in 2024, accounting for nearly a quarter of the British overseas territory’s budget. Official government data confirm that these earnings stem entirely from domain registrations linked to artificial intelligence companies worldwide. Anguilla, a Caribbean island with about 16,000 residents, […]
In the 1980s, when the Internet was still in its infancy, countries received their own unique website addresses to find their way around this new online world. Examples of this are .us for the US or .uk for the UK. After all, almost every country and territory had a domain that was either on the English or its own name [...] The post country-specific top-level domain provides Caribbean island Anguilla with millions of revenue first appeared on l…
Anguilla, self-governing British Overseas Territory, which includes a small Caribbean island with a population of about 18,000 people in 2020, is suddenly among the largest beneficiaries of an artificial intelligence boom (Artic Intelligence, AI). Its national top-level domain, which dates back to the 1980s when the Internet was born, has now become a profitable business. The number of registered sites with this domain has exceeded 850,000 -- 17…
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