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Someone is going on a .Ai shopping spree

January 31, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

.Ai domain names

So the last few weeks the Sedo country code sales have been filled with .Ai sales. The top two sales this week were .Ai sales. The week before .Ai took 12 of 27 reported cctld sales.

There seems to be one company out of Beijing that is buying all these .Ai names.

Beijing YW Tech Co. Ltd has been the buyer over the last two weeks. Two weeks ago they bought the following names on Sedo:

calendar.ai         6,999     USD
case.ai         4,999     USD
story.ai         3,999     USD
event.ai         3,999     USD
moto.ai         3,800     USD
motor.ai         3,800     USD
os.ai                 3,800     USD
nano.ai         3,800     USD
wiki.ai         3,800     USD
works.ai         3,800     USD
avatars.ai         3,800     USD
help.ai         3,200     USD

This week they picked up three more names at Sedo:

top.ai 7,100 USD
meet.ai         6,999     USD
invest.ai         6,999     USD

The largest reported .ai sale also took place this year, Automation.ai sold for $10,000. The domain was purchased by a registrant in Texas, this person also purchased PC.ai, the whois is slightly different but the address is the same.

Now first and foremost, so we are clear, this post is no recommendation for anyone to purchase any .ai domain names. I stated looking for a couple to see if I would dabble, I found gaming and casino not registered, I went to register these and 101Domain got back that these are restricted. Now names like Poker and Sex sold years ago, I don’t know if the government changed their mind as I was not following .ai back then.

.Ai if getting a little attention as being repurposed for Artificial Intelligence. The extension is the country code for Anguilla an island in the Caribbean.

So after getting rejected on Gaming and Casino, I did register one domain Films.ai, I figure the future of filmmaking might incorporate some artificial intelligence.

Facebook has facebook.ai but it redirects to https://research.fb.com/category/facebook-ai-research-fair/

The .ai extension is a very risky gamble in my opinion, I know some think it has a chance to become another .io and catch on with the tech and startup crowd, I need to do more research and we all need to see more real world sales and applications to see if those beliefs have any merit.

.Ai domains are not cheap, domainiq.com does not even recognize the extension when checking whois.

I will keep following the extension and will update any new information. If you own any .ai leave a comment.

Disclaimer: All domain investing is highly speculative, you may never sell a domain you purchase. A mention here is not a recommendation or solicitation to purchase, do your own research and stick to a budget.

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About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. 168 says

    January 31, 2017 at 11:38 pm

    Nice sales but what happened to (R)eal (I)ntelligence? 😉
    Finance, Gaming, Healthcare. Sold!

    Active.ai raises $3 Million from Kalaari Capital and IDG Ventures India
    economictimes.indiatimes.com › Small Biz › Startups
    Nov 14, 2016 – BENGALURU: Active.ai, a Singapore based fintech startup, using artificial … The conversational banking platform from Active.ai is designed to automate customer interactions using insights

    arya.ai

    http://www.kurzweilai.net

    Carnegie Mellon AI beats top poker pros — a first

    A deep learning algorithm outperforms some board-certified dermatologists in diagnosis of skin cancer
    January 25, 2017

    Cheers

  2. Joseph Peterson says

    February 1, 2017 at 5:11 am

    Mostly $4k – $7k apiece. Hard to imagine that’s a justifiable wholesale price range for resellers, given a high water mark for .AI of just $10k.

    Yet this company is buying so many so quickly that it’s equally hard to imagine them putting all these domains to use any time soon.

    So which is it – overpaying domainer or overly ambitious end user? Either way, I hope they prove my doubts unfounded.

    Definitely a weird pattern.

    • Jordan says

      February 1, 2017 at 9:50 am

      I don’t think it is a weird pattern at all, the buyer has done his homework and is snapping up the names most likely to be used by startups. I am currently working with a couple of US startups and am creating one myself and I know in the last 18 months, AI is what investors are going for so much so that startups are simply adding AI to their name to get extra exposure and increase their investment chances. Angel investors and VC’s are throwing money at these startups.
      AI is hot, it will run our robots, automate many warehouses, and help us shop. That domainer is probably a millionaire and if he outlays $100k on top AI names and sits on them, I believe he will make a sizeable profit in the future, more so than many other niche domain categories right now.

  3. Jordan says

    February 1, 2017 at 9:50 am

    I don’t think it is a weird pattern at all, the buyer has done his homework and is snapping up the names most likely to be used by startups. I am currently working with a couple of US startups and am creating one myself and I know in the last 18 months, AI is what investors are going for so much so that startups are simply adding AI to their name to get extra exposure and increase their investment chances. Angel investors and VC’s are throwing money at these startups.
    AI is hot, it will run our robots, automate many warehouses, and help us shop. That domainer is probably a millionaire and if he outlays $100k on top AI names and sits on them, I believe he will make a sizeable profit in the future, more so than many other niche domain categories right now.

    • Reg.AI says

      March 4, 2017 at 5:39 pm

      “That domainer is probably a millionaire”… sadly, no, I am not 🙂

  4. Reg.AI says

    March 4, 2017 at 5:39 pm

    I can confirm since most of those were sold by us (Reg.AI). We’ve also done quite a few sales recently outside of Sedo so they don’t show up in the aggregators. We get a lot of interest from both domain investors and startups looking to actually use the names.

  5. Igor Gabrielan says

    April 27, 2017 at 5:47 pm

    I was the first to massively register and advertise these names.
    I support sites anguilla-ai.com and pr.ai
    I have ~ 250 names

  6. Michael Lange says

    September 26, 2017 at 4:01 am

    Hi! I picked up a few lately.

    I work with Artificial Intelligence for a living, so it’s knda an old hat for me… I’d rather be programming in anguilla though!!

    My little .ai list:

    LHC.ai (won’t/can’t sell, I work with CMS, so when I find the next Higgs, I can put it on my new site. lol)
    Mechanical.ai
    cuda.ai
    otb.ai
    and three more.

    But total I have 261 TLDs. I really to sell them all. But a real pain in the arse..maybe if I can find someone to buy the whole portfolio?

    @168. I wrote a cdnn to do just that. works like an OCR. 99% more accurate than a human. Im woking on other types now. Quite amazing.

    People over complicate AI. very straight forward tech. The key is to write genetic algos to guide your NN topology for you. Just like in finance.

  7. Igor Gabrielan says

    September 26, 2017 at 12:30 pm

    My domain names:

    https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=15107

  8. Max says

    December 20, 2017 at 6:09 am

    Some idiot in Palo Alto with his home registered to it is the moron paying these prices for .ai names. lmao

  9. AI-Noe says

    April 8, 2019 at 4:56 pm

    Here is a list of recently deleted .AI Domain Names, which is updated periodically:

    https://www.domsite.io/ai-dropped-domain-names/

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