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A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003

56 points| kjok | 3 months ago |web.ai

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thesuitonym|3 months ago

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.

swiftcoder|3 months ago

I used to work for an IoT startup that really wanted the domain mq.tt. And in that era, Trinidad and Tobago's national domain administrator would only conduct business in-person, and required payment by international money order.

A facilitator was found, a deal was negotiated, and then the lawyers got involved and went "no way in hell will we let the company's primary domain renewal rely on someone walking a money order into an office in Trinidad". C'est la vie

TZubiri|3 months ago

Sad that the guys that had to break the news were legal and not IT, we need a set of balls, and basic legal training.

jcmontx|3 months ago

Pure HTML and CSS. Performant and accessible, as things should be. We must return to the fundamentals.

stronglikedan|3 months ago

> We must return to the fundamentals.

While I too would prefer it, I realize it is an idealist fantasy at this point.

kunley|3 months ago

This one even predates CSS.

donq1xote1|3 months ago

I just wanna say this is a such dope domain lol. How much does it cost?

buildbot|3 months ago

A lot less in 2003 than 2025?

pridkett|3 months ago

During the old days lots of things were easier to get.

Semi related to this - Ian Goldberg famously had the email address n@ai (Ian backwards if you missed it) - which caused problems for many mail clients and validators. I’d imagine cypherpunks.ca is easier to use. I saw similar things with one of the Balkans in 1998 - I think it was Croatia, where some government officials had name@hr email addresses.

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2002-January/...

jonway|3 months ago

Oh yeah? Check out https://news.ai/

Now it looks like restaurant adverts. Maybe not much happens there any longer.

jonway|3 months ago

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|3 months ago

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...

eej71|3 months ago

If you enjoy that one - you might also enjoy

https://www.ck/

swiftcoder|3 months ago

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)

TRiG_Ireland|3 months ago

That domain looks very interesting in the address bar of a mobile browser which hides the www prefix.

LawnGnome|3 months ago

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.

goody71|3 months ago

Domain squatters :)

kunley|3 months ago

Background images, tiled, to the rescue!