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...with the Crown Prince's permission, Gullichsen and Lyons started Tonic Corp. and began selling Tonga domain names on a first-come, first-served basis. Bummed that the cool website name you thought of is already taken? Visit www.tonic.to with a valid credit card, and they'll sell you the same name in the .to domain. Price: $100 for the first two years. You can still host your site from your PC in Topeka, Kans.; the name will just be registered by a company based on an island you probably can't find...
This business model may be contagious; a few weeks after Tonic's first press release, William Semich, executive editor of the industry trade publication WebWeek (now Internet World), announced his own ".nu" domain registry, based on the even tinier (pop. 2,000) South Pacific island of Niue. (Semich says he started his venture months earlier...
...Gullichsen isn't sweating the competition. Instead he's readying his next company, MetaCorp, due for launch this summer. It will allow customers to license their own offshore companies, complete with online banking, all dispensed via another self-run website based, like Tonic, in Gullichsen's Tonga fiefdom...
...lavish setting, a vodka-tonic, a tray of hors d'oeuvres, then well-dressed dates for everyone--the dynamic is unhealthy. It doesn't matter whether the women enter knowingly; the club's policies create a dangerous dichotomy between the "socially relaxed host," who provides the space, the drinks and the "good time," and an often sober incoming guest...
...pulp, then spit the whole mess into coconut milk. The mixture was then strained through fibers, collected in a bowl and consumed by the tribe at large. Cook's men found the practice distasteful, but what did they know? Kava, after all, had been a popular tonic in the South Seas for as long as anyone could remember. Now, two centuries later, it's taking...