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Chart
Topping Sale of You.ai Shows There's Nothing Artificial About the Real
Money Chasing .AI Domains
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In case you still
need proof of the impact that artificial intelligence
is having everywhere, consider how Sedo's
mind-boggling $700,000 sale of You.ai this week
blew the top off of our latest bi-weekly all-extension Top
20 Sales Chart. In addition to being the biggest .ai
sale ever reported (by far) and the 3rd biggest sale in any
TLD to have been publicly reported this year, .ai has now
accounted for four of the five biggest ccTLD sales
reported year to date.
The You.ai sale is almost three times bigger than the
previous .ai king of the hill, a $258,888 sale of Stack.ai in
August.
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On X
(formerly known as Twitter), widely-known domain investor Yue
Dai (who goes by [email protected]) wrote that You.ai was sold
by a fellow Chinese investor named Jiupeng. Jack noted
that Jiupeng has been investing in .ai domains for 10 years
now and his foresight is paying off in a big way. As I was
writing this, Elliot Silver at DomainInvesting.com
posted an article identifying the You.ai buyer as Darmesh
Shah, the founder of HubSpot and a noted domain
investor whose previous acquisitions included Connect.com
at $10 million in 2022.
As a
domain extension, .ai originally had no association with
artificial intelligence - it was simply the country code
TLD for Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
However, when AI applications started taking over the world,
domain investors began snapping up the previously obscure
domains, re-defining them and giving them a prosperous new
life built on the AI boom.
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While
.ai stole the spotlight at the top, .coms swept the
next four spots on the elite list with Sedo accounting for
three of those, including #2 OneLineage.com at $80,000.
SnapNames
rounded out the first five with NorthPoint.com at $31,589.
The .coms went on to pile up 13 of the 20 chart entries
overall, also getting a hand from NameJet's
$11,249 sale of the cleverly named #15 domain - HempHop.com.
You.ai
wasn't the only win the ccTLDs had to celebrate either.
They put four more entries on the Big Board including #7 CarLease.co.uk,
sold by Andy Bell at Andy
Media for $22,140. BusinessForSale.eu
put another one in the top ten, selling #9 GSM.be for $16,960.
UnicDomains
also rang the country code bell, moving #13 PCU.ca
through Afternic
for $14,500 (USD) and Markus Schnermann did it
with a $10,600 sale of #16 WeedShop.de.
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By Ron Jackson
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The
non .com gTLDs got into the act too, putting two rare one-letter
domains on the honor roll - #6 R.vip at $30,000
and #19 G.fashion at $10,000 with Afternic
handling both of those sales.
Here is how all of the
leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, October
8, 2023:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Sept. 25 - Sun. Oct. 8, 2023
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Oct. 11, 2023) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
You.ai |
$700,000 |
Sedo |
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OneLineage.com |
$80,000 |
Sedo |
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3. |
HotelDeal.com |
$51,000 |
Sedo |
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4. |
Novita.com |
$32,500 |
Sedo |
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5. |
NorthPoint.com |
$31,589 |
SnapNames |
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