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domain
name on record. Again, the old mark, set just five
months ago when Wisdom.ai
sold for $750,000), wasn't eclipsed by a
hundred thousand or two (or even three) - it raised
the bar by 60% in one fell swoop. If this is
what is happening with the few high end sales that
get publicly reported, it boggles the mind to think
what might by happening overall at the
highest level of the marketplace where non
disclosure agreements are included in most sales
contracts. Another
amazing aspect of the Bot.ai sale is that it was a Buy
It Now purchase. The buyer, who as of this writing
has not been identified, saw the Sedo listing and
didn't give the price - or negotiating in hopes of a
better deal - a second thought. The mindset was obviously
we had better grab this before someone else does.
Time will tell how good the investment was but it is
a truly great domain and industry history is filled
with people who have regrets about passing up an
opportunity to buy great domains at the prices they
used to be. The
Bot.ai news is also another life is stranger than
fiction chapter in the story of Anguilla's .ai
country code TLD. For that tiny Caribbean nation,
the good fortune to have been assigned those two
letters back in 1995 (when artificial
intelligence was relegated to science fiction) has
exceeded anything they could have dreamed of. Many
experts expect that half of the Anguilla
government's total revenue this year will
come from .ai registrations and renewals. As
for the aftermarket,
we've already seen .ai leap over all other TLDs except
.com in terms of high end sales. Where we are in
the .ai arc remains to be seen. Some think a return
to earth is inevitable, but whatever happens, it
will have been one of the most unique chapters ever
written in domain industry history. We
will be adding the Bot.ai sale to our sales charts
when our next bi-weekly
domain sales report is released
Wednesday evening, March 4th.
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