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anguila a beautiful Caribbean island
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with picture perfect beaches but it has
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also become a secret worldleading
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capital of AI and it's all due to one
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lucky coincidence anguila's domain name
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is.ai and always has been but since the
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AI explosion tech bros around the world
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have been buying.AI domains from Anguila
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so their companies can have the.AI
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website address it means Angula
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harvested approximately $30 million from
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AI registrations and renewals in 2023
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and the remote island estimates they'll
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double that income to 60 million from
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2024 domain name sales what are they
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going to do with all that cash well a
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swanky new airport terminal is being
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built alongside a private jet lounge and
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a new yacht marina and the whole
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island's infrastructure is being
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revamped with the new funds to attract
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the world's 1% new hotels and
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restaurants are popping up too as the
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island becomes richer and starts
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promoting tourism more but what do the
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locals think about the island's AI
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secret well I went there to meet some of
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them and honestly they've got mixed
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opinions at a little bit disappointed
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cuz I thought that you would now sell
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the AI but we sell so least it for 5
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years and it's not always disappointing
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cuz they're making more money than us
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and I wasn't expecting all that money to
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be made that money we could use to do a
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lot of things in Angola build roads or
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people different buildings it's more
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business more jobs more opportunity to
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be able to stay on the island and walk
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rather than you have to be the island to
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go and work it has brought in more money
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for us and um it's made us more popular
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around the world as well so you've heard
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what the Angillans think what do I think
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well having been there there's a brand
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new government just been signed in so
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anything could happen with that money
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what about you though let us know in the
