A Tiny Country in the Caribbean Is Making Millions Off Its Old Domain Name

A Tiny Country in the Caribbean Is Making Millions Off Its Old Domain Name

Anguilla is a small Caribbean island with a population of less than 20,000. It's also making millions off the tech industry with its .ai domain names.

The tiny Caribbean island sitting on a digital 'goldmine'

The Caribbean nation of Anguilla is a "small island with a big secret", said Skift. It holds "one of the most lucrative pieces of digital real estate in the world": the website domain name .ai.When the internet was first carved into country codes in the 1980s, laying the "groundwork for the digital era", no one could have imagined that "two little letters" could have the power to change the fate of a nation.But for an island that's home to fewer…

The tiny Caribbean island sitting on a digital ‘goldmine’

The Caribbean nation of Anguilla is a “small island with a big secret”, said Skift. It holds “one of the most lucrative pieces of digital real estate in the world”: the website domain name .ai. When the internet was first carved into country codes in the 1980s, laying the “groundwork for the digital era”, no one could have imagined that “two little letters” could have the power to change the fate of a nation. But for an island that’s home to few…