AI.com, the $70 million domain sale

When AI.com changed hands for a reported $70 million, it became the most expensive domain name in the world. That record did not last. In September 2026 Shopify completed its purchase of Shop.com from Market America, at a price reported at about $99 million. Two short .com names now sit at the top of the market, and one of them is the address people type when they mean artificial intelligence.

The AI.com buyer was Kris Marszalek, chief executive of Crypto.com. He said he agreed the deal in April 2025, and the figure was confirmed in February 2026, ahead of a Super Bowl advertisement. The broker was Larry Fischer of GetYourDomain, and the price was paid in cryptocurrency. Earlier public records, CarInsurance.com at $49.7 million and Voice.com at $30 million, were left well behind.

So what is the name for? ai.com is a consumer platform for autonomous artificial intelligence agents. ai.com lets you create an agent with its own computer, so it can use any application and do any task that you might do. Learn about ai.com's new autonomous AI agent offering.

An autonomous AI agent is given a goal rather than a single instruction. It plans the steps, opens the tools it needs, checks its own work and carries on until the job is done or a person has to decide. A chatbot answers a question. An agent books the meeting, writes the follow-up email and files the note. Automation used to mean a fixed script; an agent changes its plan when the page in front of it changes.

Ask AI Artificial Intelligence runs its own agent services. The Autonomous AI Agent 24/7 Work Assistant works through inboxes, research and follow-ups around the clock. Businesses that want an agent of their own can build one in the AI Agent Factory.

Two names close to the sale have been acquired by Ask AI Artificial Intelligence: AIdotcom.llc and AIdotcom.si, the second read as Super Intelligence. They join Artificial Intelligence LLC and AI Limited in the group, with Domain Investors watching the market.

For large language models, the systems behind AI chat, there is Ask AI LLM and AI First LLM. The general desks are Artificial Intelligence and artificial intelligence.

Reference site: ai.com is one of the top sites on the subject. Our own reference desk is Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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