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Whose Domain Is It? - by Tianyu Fang - Reboot

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The politics of the internet’s domain names

I’ve always been fascinated with the offshore world and the role of island nations in our global financial system. Microstates play a critical part in our digital infrastructure, too—starting from your browser’s address bar. By Tianyu Fang Anguilla. Photo by Steve Adams. You might not have heard of Anguilla, a Caribbean island that lies east to the Virgin Islands. One of Britain’s 14 overseas territories, Anguilla has a population of 15,780 and is about 2.9 times the size of Manhattan. To the internet’s Domain Name System, however, the tiny tropical island of Anguilla isn’t much different…

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