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It was
widely-known that the AI.com
domain name was sold last spring to an unknown
buyer for an undisclosed price. Most experts
assumed it would have taken an all-time record
price to get the name and we now know that was
indeed the case. The Financial Times,
who was given an exclusive to break the story, has
revealed the buyer - the owners of Crypto.com
- paid an eye-popping $70 million to
acquire the domain. That price is more than
double the previous record price of $30
million paid for Voice.com in 2019. Larry
Fischer, who was profiled in our April 2025 Cover
Story, brokered the landmark sale on
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own initials were A.I. - not
because of any future connection it might have to artificial
intelligence. On
Friday (Feb. 6), Kris Marszalek, the
co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com,
announced
his company was the buyer and would be officially
launching a new business on the site with a Super
Bowl
commercial Sunday evening (Feb. 8)
during the Seattle vs. New England championship
game. Marszalek
said AI.com will offer be an Autonomous AI agent offering for
consumers, saying "With a few clicks, anyone can now generate a private, personal AI agent that doesn't just answer questions, but actually operates on the user's behalf - organizing work, sending messages, executing actions across apps, building projects, and more. The key differentiating feature is the agent's ability to
autonomously build out missing features and capabilities to complete real-world tasks. Such improvements will subsequently be shared across millions of agents on the network, massively increasing the utility of each agent for ai.com
users." Marszalek built Crypto.com from the ground up to become one of the largest global crypto platforms in the world with
over 150 million retail users, the industry's leader in licenses, registrations and certifications, and the world's leading
USD-supporting crypto exchange. With AI.com, Marszalek is working to mainstream AI agents and AGI in the same way he led mass consumer adoption of cryptocurrency. Marszalek will lead both
AI.com and Crypto.com as CEO.
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Update:
While we've known that Larry Fischer
brokered the AI.com sale for the seller since
the deal was closed in April 2025, we just
learned today that another long-time broker
and friend, John
Mauriello at DomainAssets.com,
represented the buyer. John, who specializes
in stealth acquisitions, also helped
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek acquire XBT.com. |
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We
also learned that Larry's son, Jeff
Fischer, who joined Larry at GetYourDomain.com
last year, assisted in making the AI.com
deal happen. Keep an eye on Jeff, who is a
Villanova grad with an MBA from Dartmouth.
He is a brilliant young man and with Larry
showing him the domain ropes, he is going to
be making waves for a long time to
come. |
We
will be charting the AI.com sale and adding it to
our YTD Top Domains Sales Chart with the
release of our next bi-weekly
domain sales report on Wednesday
evening, February 18. The
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