AI.com Sells for $70 Million, the Highest Price Ever Disclosed for a Domain Name
2 18Kris 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.
2 comments
Impressed (Score: 5, Funny)
by Gilmoure ( 18428 ) on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:44PM (#65973378)
Someone made a profit from AI.
To be fair... (Score: 5, Insightful)
by ebunga ( 95613 ) on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:53PM (#65973390)
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.