Interesting Links for 20-03-2012

[andrewducker]

• The UK economy has a bigger contribution made by the internet than any other G20 country.
  (tags: uk economy internet )
• Nike puts foot in it with 'Black and Tan' trainers. Together with other examples of branding Epic Fail
  (tags: marketing shoes )
• Global arms trade grows by a quarter. Do they know something I don't?
  (tags: military business )

Comments

[steer]

The UK economy has a bigger contribution made by the internet than any other G20 country.

Quirky fact for you -- the South Pacific island Tuvalu has a GDP of only $31,350,804. Of this, something around $5,000,000 or $4,000,000 comes from the fact that their domain name is .tv and lots of people want to hire that. That's 13% of GDP -- making our 8% generated by internet look poor.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than clever. :-)

The open question is, if you set up a micronation, what unused two letter combo do you choose to maximise this revenue?

[philmophlegm]

.sx

[steer]

Nice one, and still vacant. I think I'd use .om in the hope of attracting hippies to my micronation but hippies aren't generally rich (with the arguable exception of the late Steve Jobs).

[andrewducker]

.rx?

[steer]

Heh... maybe communications professionals could get .tx and .rx and send lots of one way traffic between them.

[danieldwilliam]

.ap

[drainboy]

I think the cook islands have got it going on for companies...