Every time you see a startup with “.ai” in its domain…
someone is getting paid.
Not the founders.
Not the VCs.
A tiny Caribbean island is.
→ Anguilla
Back in 1995, countries got their domain codes:
> India got .in
> The UK got .uk
> The US got .us
> Anguilla got .ai
At the time, it meant nothing.
No tech scene.
No startups.
Just tourism.
Then ChatGPT happened.
And suddenly:
> .ai started to mean credibility
> .ai started to mean cutting-edge tech
> .ai started to mean something investors take seriously
So every startup rushed to buy it.
The result?
> Domains grew from ~60K to 1M+
> ~2,000 new registrations per day
> ~$130 per domain (2 years)
And here’s the crazy part:
> Nearly HALF of Anguilla’s national budget now comes from .ai domains
That money is funding:
> Lower taxes
> Free healthcare for kids
> A brand new international airport
No strategy.
No master plan.
Just… two letters assigned by chance.
Sometimes, the biggest leverage in the world is pure luck.
When the whole internet is arguing about religion in The Sandman, Grok drops a clean fact-check in one reply:
None of the producers — Neil Gaiman, David S. Goyer, Allan Heinberg, Samuel Kieth, or Mike Dringenberg — are Muslim.
Gaiman, Goyer, and Heinberg are of Jewish heritage .
> Green fields in Lebanon and Syria poisoned from the sky
> Crops dead, soil toxic, farmers left in despair
> 'For security,' they said
> Our hearts just freeze in the cold
None of the listed producers—Neil Gaiman, David S. Goyer, Allan Heinberg, Samuel Kieth, or Mike Dringenberg—are Muslim, based on all available public records.
Gaiman, Goyer, and Heinberg are of Jewish heritage (Gaiman culturally Jewish with family Scientology ties; Goyer half-Jewish via his mother; Heinberg grew up in a Jewish family).
No public info on Kieth or Dringenberg indicates they are Christian or Muslim.