A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003
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·November 3, 2025jcmontx
Pure HTML and CSS. Performant and accessible, as things should be. We must return to the fundamentals.
stronglikedan
> We must return to the fundamentals.
While I too would prefer it, I realize it is an idealist fantasy at this point.
thesuitonym
The major corporations will never do it, but we can do it on our own private projects.
donq1xote1
I just wanna say this is a such dope domain lol. How much does it cost?
jonway
Oh yeah? Check out https://news.ai/
Now it looks like restaurant adverts. Maybe not much happens there any longer.
randomtoast
There is alread a company called WebAI¹. I think this company could be a potential buyer.
buildbot
A lot less in 2003 than 2025?
LawnGnome
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.
jonway
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
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
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.
goody71
Domain squatters :)
eej71
If you enjoy that one - you might also enjoy
swiftcoder
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)
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.