AI.com Sells for $70 Million, the Highest Price Ever Disclosed for a Domain Name (ft.com) 18
Kris Marszalek, the co-founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, has paid $70 million for the domain AI.com -- the highest price ever publicly disclosed for a website name, according to the deal's broker Larry Fischer of GetYourDomain.com.
The entire sum was paid in cryptocurrency to an undisclosed seller. Marszalek plans to debut the site during a Super Bowl ad this weekend, offering a personal "AI agent" that lets consumers send messages, use apps and trade stocks. The previous domain sale record was nearly $50 million for Carinsurance.com, per GoDaddy.
The entire sum was paid in cryptocurrency to an undisclosed seller. Marszalek plans to debut the site during a Super Bowl ad this weekend, offering a personal "AI agent" that lets consumers send messages, use apps and trade stocks. The previous domain sale record was nearly $50 million for Carinsurance.com, per GoDaddy.
Dear Mr Marszalek... (Score:4, Insightful)
I have a wonderful business opportunity to offer you: NotARugPull dot something. Please let me know your budget and I will let you know what "something" will be.
lol (Score:2)
The next big domain name (Score:3)
Quick: the domain IA.com is still available [afternic.com]! Do I hear $07 million?
Like wallstreet (Score:3)
My friend sold wallstreet.com for $1.03 Million, and all I got was a lousy T-shirt.
My T-shirt said: My friend sold wallstreet.com for $1.03 Million, and all I got was a lousy T-shirt.
100% true.
Surprised ... (Score:2)
Impressed (Score:5, Funny)
Someone made a profit from AI.
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To be fair... (Score:5, Insightful)
This is right on schedule matching up with the end of the dotcom era. Though back then everybody IPOd as soon as possible. Now it's just a bunch of Enron-esque circular deals with Theranos-levels of impossibility, so I guess one or two people will get rich, and a few companies will be left holding the bag.
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Twain was right history rhymes.
Will x.org be next? (Score:3)
Re:Will x.org be next? (Score:4, Funny)
Because you would need to find a mental case billionaire who had some weird obsession with the letter x.
How likely is that?
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Not everyone has moved to Wayland, no.
\o/ (Score:1)
Even an AI hallucination couldn't explain the reasoning leading to this choice.
What it really is (Score:3)
"offering a personal "AI agent" that lets consumers send messages, use apps and trade stocks."
I bet $500 that behind the scenes this actually turns out to be a bunch of poorly-paid remote workers in the Philippines.
Just like the last time we heard about an amazing 'agent' thing and it was actually...wait for it...a bunch of poorly-paid remote workers in the Philippines.
Some people have all the luck (Score:2)
I get daily emails and calls from time to time for my domain but none of them ever call back about where to send the check.
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LOL with all the sterling content hosted on abnormal I can't believe you haven't made hundreds...
Some of your content is older than I am and I remember Tandy, Commodore and Amiga, PDP'S, System38 and TPF.
Cheers Mate
What's the point? (Score:2)
If you are looking for pizza, do you go to pizza.com, or do you open your favourite food delivery app and tap "Pizza" on the screen?
Or to take another example, people might think of going to dominos.com for pizza, but probably not for actual dominos.
Surely people looking for "AI" are going to go to chatgpt.com before they think about ai.com, because ChatGPT has established itself as one of the leading brands in that sector.
More likely of course, you are going to type "pizza", or "dominos", or "chatgpt" into