The British territory was allotted control of the .ai internet address in the 1990s. It was one of hundreds of obscure top-level domains assigned to individual countries and territories based on their names. Anguilla's earnings from web domain registration fees quadrupled last year to US$32 million.
A man looks at the new iPhone 16 in the Apple store as the iPhone 16 with artificial intelligence software, and other Apple Watch products, go on sale, in Berlin, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. The artificial intelligence boom has benefited chatbot makers, computer scientists and Nvidia investors. It's also providing an unusual windfall for Anguilla, a tiny island in the Caribbean.
Anguilla's government, which uses the gov.ai home page, collects a fee every time a .ai web address is renewed, Identity Digital Chief Strategy Officer Ram Mohan said the fee -- US$140 for two years -- won't change. The national is also paid when new addresses are registered and expired ones are sold off. Some sites have fetched tens of thousands of dollars.
"You can't predict how long this is going to last," Webster said in an interview with the AP. "And so I don't want to have our economy and our country and all our programs just based on this. And then all of a sudden there's a new fad comes up in the next year or two, and then we are left now having to make significant expenditure cuts, removing programs."
There are now more than 533,000 .ai web domains, an increase of more than 10-fold since 2018. The International Monetary Fund said in a May report that the earnings will help diversify the economy, "thus making it more resilient to external shocks. Mohan said working with Identity Digital will also defend against cyber crooks trying to take advantage of the hype around artificial intelligence.
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