Many (not all) small islands also have a disproportionately large EEZ. Why should that depend on population anymore than domain names?

> transferring money from populous countries to sparsely populated countries.

If small countries have something large countries want then what is wrong with transferring money.

The thing is they don’t have it anymore. They are crying and asking for it back now that it became valuable.

That almost sounds like you think sparsely populated countries don't deserve money, even if it's rightfully theirs by international law.

It sounds like they signed away rights and are now trying to make a moral argument to claw them back. So it think it's totally fair to bring other moral arguments to the table.

Per the article they didn't even sign away, the .nu domain was just given to somebody.

Why would you say they didn’t sign it away when it’s clearly been quoted several times verbatim in the article and this thread that the country DID sign it away? Is this thread full of shills?

> While Niue signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Semich around that time, it quickly backtracked, claiming it did not understand what it was agreeing to or the financial benefit control of the webspace could confer.

Anyway I'm no longer sure I hold the opinion that kicked this thread off, but I want to include that quote to clear up the facts.