discuss .Ai aftermarket is dead

[J.D.]

There had been a lot of hype about .ai the last two years, and the government of Anguilla made a killing.

Most of this money was provided by domain investors chasing the current thing. A few got in early, hit big, and have been slowly liquidating to a hungry group of domainers ready to buy. But the DeepSeek AI black swan event is a classic case of what pundits have referred to as a Sputnik moment. Listening to numerous takes from subject experts on DeepSeek popping the Ai Bubble, very few saw this Chinese firm backed tech upending USA dominance in the artificial intelligence field.

Oddly enough, China is no.1 in producing the most STEM graduates, followed by India No. 2, and USA at a light-year away distant 3rd. So, we shouldn't be surprised that American exceptionalism was a cover for American arrogance and grifting.

The trickle down effect will come fast and hard to the .ai extension aftermarket.

The music has stopped as Venture Capitalists are panicking after pumping 100s of billions into U.S. Ai startups the last two years. Moreover, they were smoothly sold a false premise: Silicon Valley was far ahead of any other countries on practical Ai and needed 100s of billions to make it work.

FALSE!

Yet, VC world opened those wallets wider than ever chasing the next big thing. Today, the same VCs are scrambling to cancel pending deals.

Companies using Ai or .ai in their online branding will sprint back to the safety of dotcom. Ai extension was a temporary novelty to attract the eyes of VCs but it is no longer a differentiator as nearly every SaaS company has or will have implemented some level of Ai by the end of 2025. They will seek the umbrella and global power of .com.

Two groups of .ai hype artists will be noticed over the next year:
(1) the disappearing hype artist (Success)
(2) the pump and dump Ai artist trying to shed their portfolios on the easily duped (Failure/Bankruptcy)

The upgrade stampede away from .ai to .com has begun.

In the domain game, trends come and go but all roads lead to DotCom.

 

[Jannes]

But but but but, the term of the day on Xwitter is Jevons paradox.

 

[johnn]

Only crap names are dead

 

[J.D.]

But but but but, the term of the day on Xwitter is Jevons paradox.

Cope has many names.
Ultimately, it boils down to VC dollars fleeing from Ai to other sectors.

AI startups are grieving over Jevon's paradox.

OpenAI went from open to ClosedAI.

Then China opened it all up again.

 

[J.D.]

Only crap names are dead

How much crap do (.ai) domainers own?

 

[johnn]

How much crap do (.ai) domainers own?

A lot

 

[alcy]

all .ai names long regged

now if u reg .ai u reg crap
so yea crap is dead for sure

good .ai words are not dead. and everyone here including op wishes they had some.

I also prefer com for ai but reality dont really have much to do with what i prefer

 

[Armageddon]

DeepSeek is a scam
Can't be something genuine with 6 mil $ investment
Soon will notice a lot is a scam
ChatGpt have 100+ mil downloads
DeepSeek have only 10+ mil downloads
DeepSeek is like or will be like RedNote ..nobody care now since chances Tiktok not be ban in USA
.ai is not dead
The new people / company killed or will kill .Ai because think can make money without knowhow how to manage like Vincent ( was his name think )

 

[J.D.]

all .ai names long regged

now if u reg .ai u reg crap
so yea crap is dead for sure

good .ai words are not dead. and everyone here including op wishes they had some.

I also prefer com for ai but reality dont really have much to do with what i prefer

You don't speak for OP.
I do not wish I owned any .ai.

I had/have zero interest in paying the higher renewals.

All I wish as a Domainer is to own better dotcoms with the greatest end-user demand.
I care nothing for non-dotcom extensions.

 

[J.D.]

DeepSeek is a scam
Can't be something genuine with 6 mil $ investment

Considering the average U.S. startup SEED round is $2.5M, that seems like a counter-intuitive comment.
The documented facts reveal most genuine success was built on less than $6M investment.

 

[qwidjib0]

By all those 2024 marketplace reports, the .ai aftermarket looks far from dead, but it still feels a lot like what ".cloud" might have been in the early 2010s. Now "cloud" is more commonly called "saas" when spoken about directly. It's more broadly just brushed over as "the way the internet works now". AI isn't going back in the box, but I can't get over how often the latest technology gets rebranded in increments of 5-10 years. Would be silly to expect .ai to have the same staying power as .com, etc. IMO.

 

[Armageddon]

Considering the average U.S. startup SEED round is $2.5M, that seems like a counter-intuitive comment.
The documented facts reveal most genuine success was built on less than $6M investment.

imo - is a scam
In max 6 to 12 months ( maybe soon ) no one will talk about it
This is how i feel maybe i am wrong maybe not
i tested is a s*hit

 

[J.D.]

By all those 2024 marketplace reports, the .ai aftermarket looks far from dead, but it still feels a lot like what ".cloud" might have been in the early 2010s. Would be silly to expect .ai to have the same staying power as .com, etc. IMO.

I can see that being the case.
Yet, you'd surprised how my (.ai) hype artists convinced many domainers that (.ai) was a replacement for (.com).

The DeepSeek event is more than a typical rebranding predictable moment.
It is closer to a black swan wrecking havoc and shattering a paradigm.

 

[Armageddon]

imo - is a scam
In max 6 to 12 months ( maybe soon ) no one will talk about it
This is how i feel maybe i am wrong maybe not
i tested is a s*hit

...and is just a clone of ChatGpt
How they do it ..i don't know
But are the same answers on ChatGPT & DeepSeek if you put questions
but with another arrangement of answers on DeepSeek vs ChatGPT

 

[J.D.]

imo - is a scam
In max 6 to 12 months ( maybe soon ) no one will talk about it
This is how i feel maybe i am wrong maybe not
i tested is a s*hit

In this post-COVID era, it seems like there are way more scams exposed on a 1-2 year timeline than legit inventiveness and innovation that stands the test of time.

Next year, we will see who is still standing when the smoke clears.

 

[qwidjib0]

I can see that being the case.
Yet, you'd surprised how my (.ai) hype artists convinced many domainers that (.ai) was a replacement for (.com).

The DeepSeek event is more than a typical rebranding predictable moment.
It is closer to a black swan wrecking havoc and shattering a paradigm.

I agree. Seems like a logical step for open source to be unseating OpenAI. Local Llama was already nipping at their heels. As these get more mainstream in mundane conversation I can easily see us just calling these "agents" or "bots" or "fracking cylons" or something we can't even predict for now.

 

[Jannes]

Considering the average U.S. startup SEED round is $2.5M, that seems like a counter-intuitive comment.
The documented facts reveal most genuine success was built on less than $6M investment.

Didn’t we already kinda know that constraints spark creativity and drive innovation?

 

[J.D.]

I agree. Seems like a logical step for open source to be unseating OpenAI. Local Llama was already nipping at their heels. As these get more mainstream in mundane conversation I can easily see us just calling these "agents" or "bots" or "fracking cylons" or something we can't even predict for now.

The term I've heard the most recently has been 'agents'.
OpenAI became CloseAI when the VCs started raining down money.

DeepSeek has started an Ai arms race and it is going to be funny to see how quickly 'Libertarian' spouting Silicon Valley Ai Kings turn nationalistic statists to protect their wallets.

 

[Dream Domains]

it was never alive

 

[J.D.]

Didn’t we already kinda know that constraints spark creativity and drive innovation?

During the Crypto/NFT bubble and growing Ai Bubble popping, it appears we knew and forgot rather quickly.
The power of cash flowing with such ease can be the ultimate seduction.

Only when the music stops playing do the fundamentals reemerge in importance between VCs and startups.