Every week another AI company raises hundreds of millions of dollars and people still act like domains somehow won’t benefit from it. Money flows downhill. Always has. You can build the greatest model in the world, hire the smartest engineers on the planet, and spend billions on GPUs, but eventually every company has to face the public. They need a brand. They need trust. They need identity. And in the digital world, that still starts with the domain name.
The funny part is we’ve seen this movie before. The internet boom created category defining domain sales. Crypto created another wave. Now AI is doing it at a scale we’ve never seen. The difference this time is the money is real and the companies are real businesses from day one. OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, all of them have trained the market to understand that a simple memorable name matters. Once companies raise at billion dollar valuations, paying six or seven figures for the exact match domain stops looking expensive and starts looking obvious.
And it won’t just be the top one percent of names. The money always spreads outward. One word .coms go first. Then strong two word brands. .ai went from being a tech name to THE most wanted TLD. Reaching IMO 50% of a dot com price. Then the supporting ecosystem names around infrastructure, agents, security, robotics, compute, healthcare, finance, and whatever category gets funded next week. Domains are digital land and AI companies are building entire cities right now.
Quote of the Day: “Dogs bark at what they don’t understand” – Heraclitus
Domain of the Day: Okon.com Pronounceable 4L. This is getting more expensive by the day
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Dynadot
InnerAgents.com Only one bid at $8
MindCharge.com At $10. Decent brandable for the price with the keyword Mind
Bake.house Perfect use of .house
XBAS.com Getting some great bids. These LLLL with Xs are going over $1K readily
PayMethod.com Payment names are also on fire. Even mid names like this
ReVocal.com Exudes AI voice over to me
PulseAgentic.com A very replaceable name but a decent add to the port if cheap
ModelCost.com What does your model cost. Let us tell you
Cargo.pro The only time I would ever use a pro is a case like this. Great combo and works well together
BettingOdds.ag AG is has a lot of gambling sites built on it
Namejet
LaserQuest.com As seen on Domain Sherpa. Its the generic name for laser tag in Europe
Neuronic.com Neuro names are hot. Neuronic is a top tier brandable in this category
ThinkTwice.com Here’s your slogan “You better think twice”
PageHealth.com Scan tool that checks for improvement
Thornhill.com Sounds like a family office and a Golf Course
Vocero.com Upgrade name for a few companies
Caterers.org Directory. Is there a Caterer’s Union 😂
MatchKey.com Like the brand. Exudes opening
RiskAnalysis.com Very generic but I think its one of the most important terms in the present space
BioFocus.com Fantastic tech and biotech name
NuPen.com A new way to write
Atom – Active Auctions
Zoib.com Pronceable 4L but lower tier. Still a four figure name
Puiz.com Another one here
Hokuu.com $20 and no reserve
ZSX.com No reserve. This LLL will sell
LunarStrategies.com No reserve at $50. Cool name for $50
Sedo
Multro.com 5L with a reserve under $80
Blindie.com Decent brand and also a first name. Low reserve
Rerki.com Another 5L that met reserve. Probably hand regging and flipping but the price is fair for the lazy
Zumsa.com 5L has met reserve at $79
Zusla.com Same
Missed.ai Reserve under $1000
Catched
Wanted.es Another .es English word catching bids
AZE.media Over $1K. Probably some SEO juice
Rolland.us A lot of companies under the name Rolland
OBE.cc LLL.cc still in demand
KVR.mx MX domains always do better than I think
Space.ec I don’t know .ec well but Space is a pretty good keyword. No bids
Godaddy Domains With Bids
OpenSet.com Top number of bids on the board today
StreamItNow.com Call to action marketing name
TheBackForty.com A southern term. Exudes the south and land
CryptoSaving.com The new act makes this one less valuable but still can award rewards
GrowingKit.com Growkit is what people use but still works at a discount. Mushrooms are what I think of for growkits
60999.com Triple 9s good for a few K
Rochin.com Getting more bids than I would have thought. Germanic name meaning “rest”
ProMint.com Not minting NFTs anymore but still some use case
CyberSlate.com CyberSecurity
SaintChristopher.com Getting good bids but I have no idea how you monetize this one
EGD.net Investible quality
PillowPicker.com Everyone I know has one or two. That’s the business I want to be in
ProtectYourHearing.com says the pain point in the title. Hearing loss. Enough to build a business on
Vote.xyz $600 renewal
TorchPro.com Torch is a flashlight in the UK . Could be non flashlight related site that highlights or burns. Also lighters
HuntingSites.com Find a website or domain to buy
Asmit.com Hindu name meaning pride
Bookpost.com Upgrade name for a small handful of companies
Neuro-Diverse.org Big category, huge discount for the hyphen
Yossef.com I know quite a few people with this name
AVGeek.com I’d have these guys put in my sound system
Oupay.com A mountain range and has Pay in it
GoDaddy Names Value Names (Low or No Bids)
Other GoDaddy Names With More Than One Bid
25km.com
36338.com
42299.com
727.cc
777rm.com
aidmi.com
ApartmentConnect.com
BeachesRestaurantAndBar.com
BestAnte.com
bitlu.com
BlackDotSeattle.com
BlueDogCafe.com
BoltBrewery.com
BravoBotanicals.com
bufordpussermuseum.com
BuyCannabisOil.com
ByMore.com
CanadaMortgages.com
CareerShow.com
CarsWorth.com
cbdcomfort.com
ChannelDailyNews.com
ChinaMagnet.com
cienciapopular.com
CoinBudget.com
coincharity.com
ComicCoin.com
ConEtic.com
CryptoBuys.com
CryptoVesting.com
cscmp.com
duflo.com
EatAtPings.com
famacide.com
FishingSite.com
ForestIndex.com
FreeLifetimePasses.com
GambleGeek.com
GetLighting.com
GraceFullCafe.com
HamMonton.com
HeadacheCenters.com
hellojs.org
HeyLeia.com
hkauto.com
icue.net
IgniteImpact.com
IntegratedReporting.com
IslandCoin.com
itennessee.com
JerusalemOnline.com
jiaojue.com
khkg.com
KnitStudio.com
lecheymas.com
LegendsVegas.com
LifePetCare.com
LoadGroup.com
lstribune.net
MarkingHistory.com
MarmaladeBrunchHouse.com
MedleyRepairs.com
MedPaper.com
MetaTurbo.com
MetaViking.com
MindTimeshare.com
mpdesigns.com
NanoPicks.com
NaplesParade.com
NewJobs.org
NewVisionDigital.com
nezuko.com
nkpe.com
OnlinePranks.com
onxtech.com
PayWorld.org
PhillipSacAndHeating.com
pmitcolleges.org
ProSilicon.com
RossAuction.com
RoyalCanna.com
seyzo.com
ShopShoe.com
ShowRunners.com
SoapShort.com
Stroganoff.org
StudentMarketplace.com
SushiFaq.com
TaxGame.com
techsplesh.com
TheLocalOnTheAvenue.com
treasuryz.com
ukpropertyauctions.com
unitedemirates.com
VenturaLab.com
VerifyAnyone.com
wdtech.com
WildlifeCrossing.com
xcompliance.com
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I wonder how it will pan out regarding AI companies’ use of extensions.
Perplexity uses the ai. and has the .com forwarded. OpenAI uses the .com, but the .ai is owned by a Chinese individual. Anthropic uses the .com and owns the .ai, but doesn’t forward it…
It will be interesting to see how many will stick to the .ai and how many will upgrade to the .com. If you can even call it an upgrade anymore.
I think they should secure it for brand protection but at this point they should just run on the .ai
Great analysis here, Shane.
While dot-COM will always remain the king of the domain empire, everyone is going to look back and see how massively undervalued dot-AI names are at this moment.
I don’t think they are massively undervalued. Premium ai are going for 40-50% of dot com in some cases. Dot ai is hitting its strides. IMO not undervalued or catching up. Its prime time. Lower quality keywords don’t do well regardless of TLD