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43. Top-Level Domains
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Those letters at the end of web addresses can mean big bucks — and, for some small countries, a substantial part of the national budget. Zachary Crockett follows the links.
- SOURCES:
- Vince Cate, technical contact for the .ai domain in Anguilla.
- Kim Davies, Vice President of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Services and President of Public Technical Identifiers at ICANN.
- Tianyu Fang, contributing editor at Reboot.
- RESOURCES:
- "The Two-Decade Fight for Two Letters on the Internet," by Jacob Judah (The New York Times, 2024).
- "Whose Domain Is It?" by Tianyu Fang (Reboot, 2023).
- "How a Tiny Pacific Island Became the Global Capital of Cybercrime," by Jacob Judah (MIT Technology Review, 2023).
- "The Tropical Island With the Hot Domain Name," by Rachel Metz (Bloomberg, 2023).
- "The Never-ending ccTLD Story," by Peter K. Yu (SSRN, 2003).
53 episodes
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Those letters at the end of web addresses can mean big bucks — and, for some small countries, a substantial part of the national budget. Zachary Crockett follows the links.
- SOURCES:
- Vince Cate, technical contact for the .ai domain in Anguilla.
- Kim Davies, Vice President of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Services and President of Public Technical Identifiers at ICANN.
- Tianyu Fang, contributing editor at Reboot.
- RESOURCES:
- "The Two-Decade Fight for Two Letters on the Internet," by Jacob Judah (The New York Times, 2024).
- "Whose Domain Is It?" by Tianyu Fang (Reboot, 2023).
- "How a Tiny Pacific Island Became the Global Capital of Cybercrime," by Jacob Judah (MIT Technology Review, 2023).
- "The Tropical Island With the Hot Domain Name," by Rachel Metz (Bloomberg, 2023).
- "The Never-ending ccTLD Story," by Peter K. Yu (SSRN, 2003).
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