Title quote stolen from JZW: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/10/the-best-way-to-profit-from-ai/
Yet again, the best way to profit from a gold rush is to sell shovels.
Title quote stolen from JZW: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/10/the-best-way-to-profit-from-ai/
Yet again, the best way to profit from a gold rush is to sell shovels.
IIRC Tuvalu got something like a $1 billion as a one-time payment for .tv and I figure .io has been fairly lucrative for British Indian Ocean.
I have mixed feelings about small island nations selling their DNS identity out like this but I guess milking tech dweebs for all they’re worth is in a certain sense cool and good actually.
I have never understood the .io domain name fad. “ah this site must do something vaguely software development-related, their name is glorksplush dot input output” what
Sadly the Indian Ocean territories is the center of a bitter dispute, and I doubt any of the revenue from IO domains accrues to those displaced from their homes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago_sovereignty_dispute
Shoulda guessed from the name “British Indian Ocean” it’s a region mired in the most heinous imperialist bullshit.
I wish the colonists a very nice time and I hope very comical things happen to them from the point of view of the Chagossians.