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The Information website reports that the well-known domain name "AI.com" is seeking a sale, with a asking price of up to $100 million (approximately NT$32.89 billion). Larry Fischer, the senior manager responsible for facilitating the sale of this domain name, previously helped resell "Messenger.com" to Meta (then known as Facebook), "Skincare.com" to L'Oréal, "Teams.com" to Microsoft, and "Chat.com," after being sold to HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah, was later sold to OpenAI. In the past, the "AI.com" domain name has led to various artificial intelligence services, most recently to the recently popular DeepSeek, and earlier to ChatGPT. Even Elon Musk's AI company xAI and Google's Gemini AI service briefly used the "AI.com" domain name to drive traffic. However, the owner of the "AI.com" domain name remains anonymous, and its validity will last until May 5, 2031. The registered location is Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Larry Fischer believes that potential buyers of this domain name could be technology companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta. If the sale goes smoothly, it could potentially exceed the price MicroStrategy paid for the "Voice.com" domain name in 2019 for $30 million.

Squarespace, a provider of website building tools, web hosting, and blogging platforms, recently announced that it will take over all assets of Google Domains. Approximately 10 million domain names previously registered through Google Domains will be transferred to Squarespace's services. Squarespace stated that it will assist existing Google Domains users with a seamless migration and touts that it will offer similar services. However, it is currently unclear whether this includes Google Domains' previous guarantee of unchanged domain usage prices. It is expected that Squarespace will offer more incentives to retain existing Google Domains users. In its statement, Squarespace emphasized that it will continue to assist existing users in purchasing domains from Google and will also continue to assist users in obtaining Workspace paid subscription services, ensuring that the rights and interests of existing users are not affected. Google Domains was launched on June 13, 2014, and became a full-fledged Google service on March 15, 2022, moving out of beta. It primarily provides domain name registration, DNS hosting, dynamic DNS, domain name forwarding, and email forwarding, as well as domain privacy and security, custom name servers, and the Domain Name System Security Extension (DNSSEC). The transaction is currently expected to be completed by the end of this year, while further confirmation of related business adjustments is not expected until at least next year.

Google has announced the launch of a new ".day" domain name, allowing users to register it for specific holidays, or for businesses, charities, and other organizations to use it for specific events or commemorative dates. Many religious and cultural organizations are already using ".day" domain names to promote holidays such as Easter and Diwali. Organizations including the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Global Accessibility Day Foundation (GAAD Foundation), the International Justice Mission, Comic Relief, Sesame Street, the Human Rights Campaign, Team Rubicon, the National Women's Law Center, the NAACP, and the Native Ways Federation have all applied for ".day" domain names and are using them in their promotional content. In addition, Google explained that ".day" domain names can also be used by brands to promote their activities or offer their services. For example, Niantic registered "Community.day" for its player community activities, while flower delivery service provider FTD preemptively registered "Valentines.day," and wedding planner The...

The ".com" domain name, which was opened for application in 1985 along with other domain names such as ".edu", ".gov", ".mil", ".net", and ".org", has now entered its 30th anniversary. "symbolics.com", the first domain name applied for on March 15th of that year, is currently the oldest domain name. The commonly used ".com" domain name officially celebrated its 30th anniversary on March 15th of this year. It was opened for application in 1985 along with other domain names such as ".edu", ".gov", ".mil", ".net", and ".org", and "symbolics.com" was the first to apply for a domain name ending in ".com". It remains operational to this day, thus becoming the oldest existing domain name. Following the registration of "symbolics.com", several other domain names were subsequently added after the opening of domain name registration, including "Xerox.com" (January 9, 1986), "HP.com" (March 3, 1986), "IBM.com" (March 19, 1986), "Intel.com" (March 25, 1986), "Adobe.com" (November 17, 1986), and "Apple.com" (February 19, 1987), and have remained in use ever since. However, with the continued development of the Internet, the number of various domain names has increased dramatically. Currently, almost every second, someone registers a ".com" domain name, accumulating to a total of approximately 1.17 million, compared to only 91 million five years ago. Therefore, ICANN continues to release domain names based on different categories such as cities, topics, and functions to meet the diverse domain name registration needs. ※Related Links》‧30 years of .com domains (venturebeat website)