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Peter Thiel met with the e-gold team in February 2000 on the Caribbean island of Anguilla to discuss making PayPal interoperable with e-gold.

Don't fall into the Anguilla domain name hack trap.

What happens if Anguilla sinks into the ocean?

It's the TLD of Anguilla, and Anguilla is quite small (population of 13000, area just over 100 square kilometers), so most likely the internet of Anguilla is maintained by just a few persons whose first priority isn't the TLD and the domains in it.

- With this revenue, Anguilla is funding, among other things, airport expansion, debt repayment, green energy, and nature conservation.

I actually moved to Anguilla for the same reason -- outside the USA, I could sit in a room next to a Dutch (non-US) citizen, and I could write/publish (to the Internet, accessible to at least 50 people) an academic paper describing an algorithm.

Costa Rica and Panama are the traditional Central American options, and there are the Caribbean or other island/tax haven options, but a lot of those are too small to have developers (and expensive), and will bend over for the US officially or unofficially, particularly if a small business is involved (without political connections); I made the mistake of doing stuff in Anguilla before.

Title edited by me from "There are now more than 1 million “.ai” websites, contributing an estimated $70 million to Anguilla’s government revenue last year"

I'm glad I've never had immigration or customs problems anywhere, despite going to some really sketchy places (flying into Iraq as a civilian at the civilian airport with no visa a few times after the invasion...) or otherwise bending the rules ($200k in computers, including 6 big 21" CRTs, on my way to set up an office in Anguilla...).

The top 100 domains with that TLD still have little to do with Anguilla.

Almost half of Anguilla’s state budget now comes from the.ai domain extension.

Here's the summary of the 5 page doc he presented: In 2000, according to Peter Thiel, he met with the E-Gold team in Anguilla.