.Ai has a new record-holder.
Sedo has brokered the sale of Expert.ai for €95,000 (about $108,000), a record for a publicly-disclosed .ai domain name sale.
According to Whois records, the Italian firm Expert System SpA bought the domain name. Expert System is a publicly-traded artificial intelligence company that uses the domain name ExpertSystem.com.
.Ai is the country code domain name for Anguilla but has been adopted for use by many artificial intelligence companies.
According to NameBio, the previous high water mark for a .ai domain name was Music.ai, which sold for $101,500 in 2018. The next highest publicly-disclosed sale was Analytics.ai for $50,000 in 2019.
Really? Something somewhere is …..
I don’t understand the world…
nice sale…
Big waste of money.
In 10 years technology will have moved on to a new buzzword and this will be a dinosaur domain.
Snoopy, your negativity is getting quite old now.
You’ve long argued that people should stay well away from .ai (and anything not .com).
In this case however a $50 .ai is selling for $108,000.
So it looks like you’re wrong again. Case closed.
The registry is not selling domains like this for $50. Would have been a mid-high 4 figure acquisition cost.
How do you know?
You don’t know if it was regged pre-premium.
And if it was a premium, by your logic buying for $5k and selling for $108k is still something that you’d advise against – say what!!
Looks like folks can make money with non-coms.
If they can achieve what isn’t possible for you, you should congratulate them – not poop on achievement.
When a full service pitch deck (powerpoint presentation + support) might run $50k+, an investment like this makes sense, because it’s not like they stood a good chance of getting the .com, at least for under a few million considering the current owners. And then if you have a week or two before a presentation either an investor or client, and time to negotiate a more modest price isn’t there. Have you seen the wages and benefits or options in-demand senior tech engineers are offered? Kicking tires for a few weeks is very costly, and after all it may be a tax ‘write off’ anyway.
If they’re an AI company the .ai is better than the .com – the world is changing.
Indeed, many people *expect* an AI company to use .ai instead of .com
Which people are they?
Well, as an example, my wife is a tech reporter and savvy internet user. She is so used to .ai companies that she covers using .ai that when she recently wrote about one she immediately typed in the company name followed by .ai. Turns out they use a .com.
It’s good to see non dot com
Sales getting a good sales boost
i work in the AI sector, and most true ai startups opt for .ai, especially if the .com is too expensive.
see: drive, sherpa, doc and thousands more
i never have buyer’s remorse, but i do have seller’s remorse per some .ai names, albeit briefly, namely having sold premium keyword names in .ai too cheap 2 years ago…but, i’ve moved on…c’est la vie