US EditionHow a Tiny Caribbean Island Cashes in on the Global A.I. Boom
Anguilla's .ai domain sales are projected to reach $51 million in 2026, accounting for nearly 25% of the island's revenue and funding local development projects, officials say.
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Anguilla has been earning revenue from luxury travel for a long time, but recently began to benefit from its web address
Caribbean island of Anguilla makes millions from .ai web domain
The Caribbean island of Anguilla has found its new AI cash cow. When the internet first started out, countries and territories claimed their unique domain extensions to tag onto websites — .us, .uk, and for Anguilla, .ai. With the AI boom that came decades later, companies and entrepreneurs are paying the British Overseas Territory top dollar to register their websites with its domain, the BBC reported. The same thing happened for the Pacific is…
When the internet was first born in the 1980s, individual countries and territories were given their own web address extensions. The United Kingdom had .uk, the United States had .us – and the remote Caribbean island of Anguilla got a simple .ai. At the time, it didn’t seem like a valuable lottery ticket, but today, in the era of the rocketing development of artificial intelligence, it has turned out to be a jackpot. The .ai extension has become…
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