How Anguilla turned a web domain into a national treasure
Every country has a web domain that represents it: .it for Italy, .fr for France, .us for the United States. Anguilla was assigned .ai, a technical code ignored for years.
Then came the artificial intelligence boom, and that suffix became the most desired on the web.
Anguilla, a Caribbean paradise with 15,000 inhabitants, is today an unexpected player in the AI economy. They don’t develop models, have no data centers, no startups, but they earn millions thanks to AI. Literally.
Startups, companies, big tech: everyone wants a “.ai” site. Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic… they pay. A lot. In 2023 alone, Anguilla made 32 million dollars, more than 10% of its GDP.
With that money, the government changed its priorities: free healthcare for people over 70, schools and training centers, an upgraded airport, doubled sports budget.
It’s the AI economy, tropical version. A stroke of luck turned into a national strategy. And now every new AI launched in the world also carries a piece of Anguilla.
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Marco Camisani Calzolari
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