Top level domains have been a significant source of income for several countries for a while now.
To be honest, even all these decades later, I’m still not happy with how everything became “.com” and that’s it
Lemmy has nice diverse set of domains, a lot of them are pretty creative!
I aint German
I dont speak German at all
I have never been to Germany
Im not even technic
I wonder what the Bahamas could do with “.bs”
It’s always been a pet peeve of mine when TLDs get used for something other than their purpose. I get that countries have benefited from it, but that’s random chance and not what the system was set up for. I know this is a small thing to get annoyed about (so don’t take me too seriously) but if it were up to me, .ai domains should have to prove their connection to Anguilla.
Only tangentially related, but I’m disappointed that none of the .io domain revenue goes to the juristiction it represents
That particular jurisdiction exists pretty unethically as well, which somewhat puts me off sites that use it.
The British Indian Ocean Territory was formed specifically to prevent the native inhabitants from gaining self-determination, allowing for a joint UK/US military base to be set up. The inhabitants were forcibly expelled in the 1960s, and ever since then the British government have taken active, sometimes deceptive, measures to prevent them from ever returning. You should look it up.
I assume it’s an oblique reference to British Colonialism. Seems like an odd topic to attach so directly to British imperialism, but whatever.
Tuvalu’s .tv and now Anguilla’s .ai
