information AI.com Sold for $70 Million in Biggest Domain Name Sale Ever Recorded - Owners of Crypto.com Bought the Name for New Business Launching With Super Bow

[Ron Jackson]

AI.com Sold for $70 Million in Biggest Domain Name Sale Ever Recorded - Owners of Crypto.com Bought the Name for New Business Launching With Super Bowl Ad

It was widely-known that the AI.com domain name was sold last spring to an unknown buyer for an undisclosed price. Most experts assumed it would have taken an all-time record price to get the name and we now know that was indeed the case. The buyer - the owners of Crypto.com - paid an eye-popping $70 million to acquire the domain.

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[biggie]

Hi

I figured a buyer would make subdomains
ie: crypto.ai.com


imo…

 

[silentg]

Buyer (Kris) also got OG.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/2018741641742626975

 

[Impactful.id]

Hi

I figured a buyer would make subdomains
ie: crypto.ai.com


imo…

If buyers already have crypto.com, why create crypto.ai.com? It's useless.

 

[Bobo Bobo]

Cheers for great news for the premium domain market. The right extension to the right of the dot...

 

[Armageddon]

Who is / was the seller ?
No one say

 

[Impactful.id]

Who is / was the seller ?
No one say

Arsyan Ismail, check on linkedin

 

[Gabriel360]

Arsyan Ismail, check on linkedin

He appears to be an employee of OpenAI.
Strange they didn't buy it from him.

 

[Impactful.id]

He appears to be an employee of OpenAI.
Strange they didn't buy it from him.

Maybe OpenAI wasn't interested in rebranding to that domain, or maybe they weren't aware that one of their employees owned the domain. It's common for employees to own assets associated with their workplace and keep them hidden. Or maybe there's another Arsyan Ismail who has not related with OpenAI, who knows

 

[radarcrypto]

After AI.com the domain with the biggest potential seems to be RWAs.com with 800T RWAs ready to be tokenized

 

[domainnews]

Who is / was the seller ?
No one say

Meaningless!

Game.com was once claimed to have been bought for 17 million USD, but the seller eventually clarified it was 3.6 million USD.

Fund.com was reported by domain media to have been sold for 10 million USD, but the deal was ultimately not completed.

 

[Domain Expert]

He was already rich long before this deal.

Check his website: https://arsyan.com/

 

[Joshua92824]

The seller (Arsyan) has been involved in multiple scams with the most famous one being BitKingdom where thousands of bitcoins were lost. Me and my brother personally lost 65 BTC together which is over 4 million USD. He was also involved in the Epik scam and to see proof of all this just search Arsyan Ismail BitKingdom or Arsyan Ismail Epik. It's sad to see that its these type of people who thrive in today's society but what can you do when they have the power and money to lobby governments to evade the law...

 

[biggie]

If buyers already have crypto.com, why create crypto.ai.com? It's useless.

Hi

they can create any keyword and sell as premium registration, just like it.com did

also an opportunity to take juice away from single word .ai names

ie: agent.ai.com

imo….

 

[Gerontius]

Arsyan Ismail, check on linkedin

So the seller’s initials are A.I.?

 

[Impactful.id]

So the seller’s initials are A.I.?

Right

 

[Impactful.id]

Hi

they can create any keyword and sell as premium registration, just like it.com did

also an opportunity to take juice away from single word .ai names

ie: agent.ai.com

imo….

actually it can be anything according to the owner's wishes

 

[silentg]

The site is now live, letting users to reserve both a personal username and an agent name.

 

[Impactful.id]

Given the current progress, news of the $70 million sale has sparked curiosity and gone viral, prompting many people to visit the site. This is a truly brilliant marketing strategy. I visited earlier, and there seemed to be a long line.

 

[silentg]

how it started:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2019776790919815611

how it's going: https://x.com/i/article/2020362655966396416

OpenClaw (was also known as ClawdBot and MoltBot) is about 2 weeks old.


what did the team work on since they purchased the domain last year?

OpenClaw was created by Peter (not associated with Ai.com)
https://x.com/steipete