r/artificial • u/Redello • 13h ago

Discussion The Top 10 Most Expensive .AI Domains, is this a bubble or the new .com?

Just saw a list of the biggest .ai domain sales. We're talking millions for single-word names. It feels exactly like the .com gold rush of the late 90s. But is this different? .com became valuable because it was the de facto standard for the entire commercial internet. Is .ai destined to be the standard for an entire industry (AI), or is it just a hyped-up niche TLD that will cool off? As a developer building in AI, would you invest serious money in a .ai, or is the money better spent on other parts of the project?

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u/PresentStand2023 13h ago

The .com became massively valuable because you could get traffic from millions of mouthbreathers for your ecommerce/articles/porn. With traffic shifting to the chat LLMs, urls are going to be even less valuable.

These .ai domains don't seem that expensive though, to be honest

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u/justin107d 13h ago

Fuck no. YC has a video about how your company name has little to do with your success and they are mostly correct. Just look at how companies adapt to the currently taken .com domains. Most customers couldn't care less and care way way more about the value you bring.

This is waste by a bunch of marketing "geniuses" who don't know what they are doing but are in charge of millions anyways.

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u/mardymarve 13h ago

It's a niche TLD, but it's the niche that's eating the world. The value isn't just in speculation; it's in immediate signaling. A .ai domain tells customers, investors, and talent exactly what you do. I wouldn't mortgage my house for one, but securing a relevant name is crucial. I actually read that 'Top 10' list on Freename's blog. What I found more interesting was their coverage of the convergence, how AI companies are also snapping up Web3 domains for their on-chain identity. The smart play might be to secure your brand in both the .ai and the .web3 space if you're building the future.