.ai revenue on course to surpass 2025 after half-year total hits EC$196.8m
Anguilla’s .ai domain has generated EC$196.8 million in revenue during the first half of this year, putting it already within… The post .ai revenue on course to surpass 2025 after half-year total hits EC$196.8m appeared first on Anguilla Focus | News.
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Anguilla’s .ai domain has generated EC$196.8 million in revenue during the first half of this year, putting it already within striking distance of last year’s total.
The figure represents a significant surge in revenue, with just six months of 2026 already accounting for more than 85% of the $230m generated during 2025.
Information technology minister Jose Vanterpool announced the half-year total at a government press conference on 20 July, after revealing that June alone brought in $29.8m.
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That took second-quarter revenue from domain registrations to $99.1m, with April generating $35.8m and May $33.5m.
The second quarter edged ahead of the first, which brought in $97.7m from monthly totals of $25.5m in January, $32.9m in February and $39.3m in March.
During a press conference on 18 May, Vanterpool said the “revenues continue to perform strongly” with March recording the highest ever domain registration earnings total and April just behind.
“For those who may not have remembered – as a reference point, the average revenue that we would have had last year was about $21m per month,” he added.
In October, 2024, US company Identity Digital signed a memorandum of understanding with Anguilla’s government to manage the sale of .ai domain registrations for five years.
Representatives said they would be using their global registry management system to help reduce cybersecurity risks and protect the coveted domain’s reputation.
Former premier Ellis Webster said the company would charge a small percentage of the domain registration costs for the company’s services, but did not provide further details.
The .ai country code top-level domain (ccTLD) officially migrated over to the company’s platform in January 2025.
Anguilla went on to earn EC$230m (US$85.3m) from .ai domain registrations in 2025 – far exceeding the government’s projected end-of-year total.
In April this year, Anguilla hosted a high-level global summit for .ai domain registrars, bringing together major international tech and digital industry players.
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