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It's more bizarre that a single organisation would have such tight control over the Internet. Assigning a tld to each country is a good way to appease each country and give them autonomy over their own portion
But do they actually have autonomy, give that random companies can use
.io
and.ai
? Or did the British Indian Ocean Territory and Anguilla approve all such uses of those domains?There are several cctld where the entity buying the domain needs to be a local. EU is an example for that. De requires you to be able appoint a representative within 2 weeks living in Germany.
Yep. The governments typically select who administers the tld and then get a lump sum or portion of the revenues.
For
.ai
it was 10% of their GDP in 2023 which is insane...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ai