The Information websiteReports allegeThe famous "AI.com" domain name is being sold, and the asking price is as high as US$1 million (approximately NT$32.89 billion).
Larry Fischer, the veteran manager who brokered the sale of the domain, previously helped sell Messenger.com to Meta (then known as Facebook), Skincare.com to L'Oréal, and Teams.com to Microsoft. Chat.com was sold to HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah before being sold to OpenAI.
In the past, the "AI.com" domain name has been used to direct traffic to different artificial intelligence services. The most recent one was the recently popular DeepSeek, and earlier it was directed to ChatGPT. Even xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, and Google's Gemini artificial intelligence service were briefly diverted through the "AI.com" domain name.
However, the owner of the "AI.com" domain name remains anonymous, and its validity period will last until May 2031, 5. The registration location is Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Larry Fischer believes that potential buyers of this domain name may be technology companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta. If the sale is successful, it may exceed the price of the "Voice.com" domain name that MicroStrategy bought for US$2019 million in 3000.
