A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003

https://web.ai/

48•kjok•6h ago

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donq1xote1•5h ago

I just wanna say this is a such dope domain lol. How much does it cost?

randomtoast•5h ago

There is alread a company called WebAI¹. I think this company could be a potential buyer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAI

buildbot•5h ago

A lot less in 2003 than 2025?

jonway•6m ago

Oh yeah? Check out https://news.ai/

Now it looks like restaurant adverts. Maybe not much happens there any longer.

thesuitonym•4h ago

I miss web indexes. It felt much more like an act of discovery to drill down to a topic I might not have otherwise been interested in to find some gem of a web page, and then to check that pages links and webrings. It always gives me joy to come across one, even if all the pages on it are long abandoned.

jonway•4h ago

Not sure if my memory is faulty on this one, quick search didnt turn anything up.

Didn't some of the cypherpunks move out to anguila to avoid the crypto export bans during the first crypto wars?

swiftcoder•1h ago

That's a real bold move, climate-wise. It's an island whose highest point is about 200 feet (65 metres) above sea level, and it's smack-dab in the middle of the hurricane highway...

jonway•8m ago

Yes, to answer my own question like an adult, some did!

Vince Cate moved there to work on export-banned crypto, renouncing his citizenship and would start an ISP on the island after the banks rejected his electronic money ideas. This could have been PayPal in another timeline? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Cate

the e-Gold people met there on an occasion, and Robert Hettinga and MIT researcher Rafael Hirschfield started the International Conference on Financial Cryptography in Anguila. https://news.ai/ref/crypto98.html

So not in droves but it was a place, as it were.

jcmontx•4h ago

Pure HTML and CSS. Performant and accessible, as things should be. We must return to the fundamentals.

stronglikedan•3h ago

> We must return to the fundamentals.

While I too would prefer it, I realize it is an idealist fantasy at this point.

thesuitonym•35m ago

The major corporations will never do it, but we can do it on our own private projects.

eej71•4h ago

If you enjoy that one - you might also enjoy

https://www.ck/

swiftcoder•2h ago

The lengths the Cook Islands have to go to prevent folks from registering profanity is entertaining (there was a spate of .co.ck novelty names before they locked it down)

goody71•2h ago

Domain squatters :)

LawnGnome•1h ago

ai was also one of the ccTLDs that had an MX record for a long time, and I believe (although never had reason to confirm) actually used it. foo@ai tended to be a fun test case for e-mail validation.

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