debate AI bubble and AI domains and 2026

[katerleonid]

A friend contacted me via LinkedIn and asked what I think about the AI bubble and .ai domains in 2026. I’m no expert here, I don’t have big .ai sales. So I’m asking you: what do you think 2026 will look like for .ai sales? Will it slow down, or will it be the biggest year ever?

The issue I see is that a lot of people (like my friend) look at those big .ai sales and believe that if they buy a few .ai domains, they can just resell them and get rich quickly. But someone has to tell the truth: those big .ai sales are not about luck (maybe 0.01%), but about patience, investment, and experience.

Maybe the top .ai sellers have 10–20 .ai domain sales per year, but they have huge portfolios. For a beginner, if they invest $1,000 in .ai domains, they will most likely not make any profit at all.

People expect quick profit because they see those big .ai sales, but they don’t realize those domainers have been playing the game for a very long time.


Everyone is talking about the AI bubble, yet nobody registered AIBubble.ai. So maybe the bubble isn’t coming yet?

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

You have a friend that wants to quit domaining
A friend wants to be a resailer
Now a friend asking about ai bubble
At least you have more friends than i do

What makes you think its a bubble?
Or your friend think that?

For a beginner, if they invest $1,000 in .ai domains, they will most likely not make any profit at all.

What makes you say that?
Are you saying go buy 5 .ai domains, they most likely lose money.

Any name i buy, i can put a business on instantly. Learned that from Dicker decade or so ago

Its a pricy extension, thats good. Keep the slime away.

AiBubble.ai
What kind of business someone gonna put on that.

BubbleMaker.ai is available.
2.me not jumping on ai bandwagon, names and using it, would be like laughing at bitcoin in 2012
Lead, follow or get the fudge out of the way.

Why is it a bubble? Technology wont keep up?
To much power consumption?
The human brain will actually evolve
Trump will put an end to it?

Quick profit? Anyone who expects quick profit in this business better find another business to get into.

Everyone is talking about the ai bubble is false statement. That would imply 100% of people

Any prediction when the big pop will happen in ai bubble?

 

[katerleonid]

Actually, aibubble.ai just sold via GoDaddy.

Working in the industry and writing about domaining has brought me a lot of friends.

 

[NickB]

Funny....I spoke to a friend and was talking about being more proactive in domaining again....

He said sent me the below and said why bother, we're all fcked anyway....

https://ai-2027.com/

 

[Kuffy]

I hope that we will be able to turn off AI in search engines and help desks. AI wastes an enormous amount of time, and either provides an incorrect answer or avoids the question in my experience. If you are enquiring about a payment, you just need a transaction number, not a load of inaccurate guff about the Swift system for example.