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OpenAI's ChatGPT is now the destination for the domain name AI.com(Opens in a new tab). Although the domain was purchased in 2021, it wasn't until this week that it really resolved to a website.
Mashable got more information from Jeffrey Gabriel of Saw.com(Opens in a new tab), a well-known domain broker who took credit for completing the sale. When the (Opens in a new tab)Sex.com domain was sold for $13 million in 2010, Gabriel was the broker engaged in the transaction, which at the time set a record.
Gabriel stated that he was unable to confirm the identity of the buyer of AI.com(Opens in a new tab) due to the terms of the sale, but the dialogue left little space for speculation. Other hypotheses, such as that OpenAI received a significant, multimillion dollar favor from someone, are less plausible.
OpenAI was asked by Mashable to confirm that it purchased the domain, but the company has not yet responded.
Regarding the ultimate selling price, Gabriel did mention that in the current market, a domain "like" AI.com(Opens in a new tab) would fetch over $10 million. Gabriel further stated that the public asking price for AI.com(Opens in a new tab) prior to the acquisition was $11 million.
Since he began selling the name, AI.com(Opens in a new tab) has reportedly attracted frequent offers, according to Gabriel.
Every week, he claims, "someone would give a hundred grand, two hundred grand, or a million dollars."
Gabriel claims that Amazon was one potential buyer, however he thinks the company was more interested in using the domain for a forthcoming Amazon Internet product than for an AI-based one. The e-commerce behemoth finally decided against purchasing the domain, though. Gabriel finds it interesting that firms with investments in AI, like Nvidia and Intel, showed no interest when contacted about the field.
When you sell names like this to the top businessmen in the field, it's interesting, Gabriel remarked. "They frequently don't want them or don't want to pay higher prices. And in order to generate that sense of market leadership, it's typically the smaller, less well-known company that needs to make a splash or do something to make them more recognizable."
I'm not sure if [the buyer] truly required it at this point, he said. "But it'll essentially make that product the market leader. It accomplished this within a few weeks or months, correct? Several businesses would need ten or twenty years to achieve this level of popularity and usage."
Two-letter.com domain names are among the industry's holy grails of domains because of their concision and scarcity. As there are only 676 possible combinations and they have all already been registered, buying one requires paying more on the secondary market. Even the most random two-letter.com combination has never sold for less than a minimum of $100,000 during the course of at least the last ten years, according to NameBio(Opens in a new tab) and DNJournal(Opens in a new tab), two websites that track public domain sales. IT.com, the most valuable two-letter domain sale of the previous year, sold for $3.8 million.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT is now the destination for the domain name AI.com(Opens in a new tab). Although the domain was purchased in 2021, it wasn't until this week that it really resolved to a website.
Mashable got more information from Jeffrey Gabriel of Saw.com(Opens in a new tab), a well-known domain broker who took credit for completing the sale. When the (Opens in a new tab)Sex.com domain was sold for $13 million in 2010, Gabriel was the broker engaged in the transaction, which at the time set a record.
Gabriel stated that he was unable to confirm the identity of the buyer of AI.com(Opens in a new tab) due to the terms of the sale, but the dialogue left little space for speculation. Other hypotheses, such as that OpenAI received a significant, multimillion dollar favor from someone, are less plausible.
OpenAI was asked by Mashable to confirm that it purchased the domain, but the company has not yet responded.
Regarding the ultimate selling price, Gabriel did mention that in the current market, a domain "like" AI.com(Opens in a new tab) would fetch over $10 million. Gabriel further stated that the public asking price for AI.com(Opens in a new tab) prior to the acquisition was $11 million.
Since he began selling the name, AI.com(Opens in a new tab) has reportedly attracted frequent offers, according to Gabriel.
Every week, he claims, "someone would give a hundred grand, two hundred grand, or a million dollars."
Gabriel claims that Amazon was one potential buyer, however he thinks the company was more interested in using the domain for a forthcoming Amazon Internet product than for an AI-based one. The e-commerce behemoth finally decided against purchasing the domain, though. Gabriel finds it interesting that firms with investments in AI, like Nvidia and Intel, showed no interest when contacted about the field.
When you sell names like this to the top businessmen in the field, it's interesting, Gabriel remarked. "They frequently don't want them or don't want to pay higher prices. And in order to generate that sense of market leadership, it's typically the smaller, less well-known company that needs to make a splash or do something to make them more recognizable."
I'm not sure if [the buyer] truly required it at this point, he said. "But it'll essentially make that product the market leader. It accomplished this within a few weeks or months, correct? Several businesses would need ten or twenty years to achieve this level of popularity and usage."
Two-letter.com domain names are among the industry's holy grails of domains because of their concision and scarcity. As there are only 676 possible combinations and they have all already been registered, buying one requires paying more on the secondary market. Even the most random two-letter.com combination has never sold for less than a minimum of $100,000 during the course of at least the last ten years, according to NameBio(Opens in a new tab) and DNJournal(Opens in a new tab), two websites that track public domain sales. IT.com, the most valuable two-letter domain sale of the previous year, sold for $3.8 million.
https://spiritsevent.com
https://gpsku.co.id/
https://caramanjur.com/
https://rainyquote.com
https://www.teknovidia.com/
https://hpmanual.net/
https://www.inschord.com/
https://edukasinewss.com/
