the .ai country-code domain needed roughly five years to scale from ~40,000 registrations in early 2020 to over 1M in early 2026.
This TLD, managed by Identity Digital, has a huge fiscal impact on the Anguilla (&70M revenue in 2025), as well on aftermarket, with multiple six-figure domain sales.

The milestone reflects continued demand for AI-branded digital identities across startups, enterprises, research initiatives, and tooling providers.

Originally assigned to Anguilla as its country-code TLD, .ai has evolved into a de facto global namespace for artificial intelligence related sites. This additional revenue is reinvested into long-term infrastructure and public services on the island.

Bron: EuroDNS