Anguilla, the British Overseas Territory in the Eastern Caribbean Sea, has begun charging several times higher registration fees for the .ai domain name, which goes along with the acronym for artificial intelligence (AI, AI), writes Bloomberg.
Domain name manager Vince Keith told the agency that the number of site registrations ending in .ai doubled last year to almost 287.5 thousand, and according to him, the domain name registration fee in Anguilla will be between $25 and $25 in 2023. 30 million.
Anguilla earned $7.4 million from .ai domain name registrations in 2021 and was expected to earn around $8.3 million in 2023, according to publicly available data.
“From 30 November [2022-го] The situation is completely different here,” said Keith, referring to the public launch date of the ChatGPT chatbot.
The publication says that if domain name registration fees exceed $25 million, that would be almost a quarter of the Anguilla Treasury’s budget for the current year (about $107 million).
The price of a domain name can vary, but registrars must pay Anguilla a flat price of $140 for two years of registration with that address. Until the middle, this amount was $120.
Officials of the island region declined to comment.
Before this expert appreciated The decision of the Moscow Pedagogical University to use artificial intelligence in education.
Previously in the State Duma declarationthey do not see “disaster” in the use of neural networks by students.