.ai Domain Sales, What Sold and for How Much

Recorded .ai domain sales grew from 152 in 2021 to 2,070 in 2025, with 4,925 recorded sales in total between May 2021 and May 2026. The median .ai sale was 2,125 USD, 75.9 percent of sales were below 5,000 USD, and the top recorded sale was wisdom.ai at 750,000 USD (Grit Brokerage, 2025-10-13). Most .ai names trade in the low thousands, while a small group of short, meaningful names reach six figures.

This article breaks the .ai market down by year, by top sales, by length and by venue, using only recorded sales with a venue and a date. All figures come from public reports of domain sales at or above 1,000 USD, covering the window from May 2021 to May 2026. The first recorded .ai sale in that window is dated 2021-06-07 and the latest is dated 2026-05-28. Sales below 1,000 USD are not included, so the true volume of .ai trades is higher than shown here.

How the .ai market grew year by year

The .ai extension is the country code for Anguilla, but it is bought almost entirely for its meaning: artificial intelligence. As AI products multiplied, demand for .ai names followed.

Two things stand out. First, volume rose sharply. The 2025 count is about fourteen times the 2021 count, and the first five months of 2026 already recorded about half the 2025 total. Second, the median barely moved. It stayed between roughly 1,700 and 2,400 USD every year.

That combination tells you how the market grew. It was not that every .ai name became worth more. Many more names started changing hands, most at modest prices, while the top end stretched much higher. The largest sale of each year climbed from 28,000 USD in 2021 to 750,000 USD in 2025.

The largest recorded .ai sales

These are the top recorded .ai sales in the window, each with its venue and date.

Almost every name on this list is a single, common English word. Several describe a broad category (cloud, law, blockchain), several are brandable everyday words (wisdom, breeze, rush, seed), and a few point at specific consumer AI products (girlfriend, boyfriend). Only 59 recorded .ai sales reached 100,000 USD or more, out of 4,925.

Note the venues. Many of the largest sales happened at end-user marketplaces such as Atom.com, Afternic and Sedo, or as private sales. These are retail transactions, where a company buys the name it plans to use. That pattern matters when you price a .ai name, because the headline figures mostly reflect retail buyers.

Two-letter .ai names

Two-letter names are scarce in every extension. In .ai, the corpus records 38 sales of two-letter names made of letters only. These are the largest.

The pattern is clear. Letter pairs that mean something to a buyer (os for operating system, ui for user interface) sold for the most. Pairs without an obvious meaning, many of them sold at investor venues such as Dynadot, fill the rest of the top ten between 17,201 and 25,500 USD. Further down, the median of all 38 letter-only pairs was 5,500 USD and the lowest was 1,116 USD, so not every two-letter .ai name is a five-figure asset.

How length affects .ai prices

The table below groups recorded .ai sales by the number of characters before the dot. It counts all characters, including digits and hyphens, so the two-character group here includes numeric pairs as well as the letter pairs above.

Only two-character names show a clearly higher median. Beyond that, length on its own does not explain much. Three-character names have the lowest median of the group, largely because many three-letter combinations are random letters that investors buy in volume. Five-character names, many of them real words, sit at the top of the longer groups.

The lesson is that meaning beats length. A five-letter word that a business would build on is worth more than a three-letter string with no meaning. When pricing a .ai name, compare it with names of similar meaning, not just similar length.

Where .ai names sell

Recorded .ai sales are concentrated at a few venues.

Most recorded .ai sales happen at investor venues. Namecheap alone accounts for more than half. That makes the overall .ai median a mostly wholesale figure. Sales at end-user venues show a very different level: across .ai sales at retail venues, the median was 9,995 USD, against 2,000 USD at wholesale venues.

Developer and AI terms in .ai

Short developer terms are a natural fit for .ai, and their recorded sales show how fast the segment moved.

• stack.ai sold for 4,449 USD (Whois.ai, 2021-07-06) and then for 72,999 USD (Dynadot, 2024-06-03).
• server.ai sold for 2,651 USD (Sedo, 2022-01-02) and then for 29,400 USD (Namecheap, 2025-02-25).
• workflow.ai sold for 35,000 USD (Park.io, 2023-01-07).
• kernel.ai sold for 14,599 USD (Dynadot, 2024-10-08).
• debug.ai sold for 7,260 USD (Whois.ai, 2023-05-08) and for 15,000 USD (Whois.ai, 2023-06-05).
• webhook.ai sold for 2,424 USD (Namecheap, 2025-10-08).

Two names, stack.ai and server.ai, sold more than once and rose roughly 16 times and 11 times respectively. Narrower compounds such as webhook.ai stayed in the low thousands. For a full worked example of pricing a name in this group, see our guide on how to price a domain name with comparable sales.

What the data says about pricing a .ai name

Expect the low thousands unless the name is exceptional

With a median of 2,125 USD and three quarters of recorded sales below 5,000 USD, most .ai names that sell at all sell in the low thousands. Six figures are reserved for a very small group of short, common, meaningful words.

Weight recent sales

The market roughly doubled in recorded volume between 2024 and 2025. A comp from 2021 or 2022 is a weak guide to today's buyer, and in this segment it usually understates value.

Keep wholesale and retail apart

Because most .ai sales happen at investor venues, the median describes the investor market. A business buying a name it needs may pay several times that, as the retail median shows. Price both, and decide which market you are selling into.

Look for meaning, not just shortness

Short helps only when the letters mean something. The two-letter names with the highest prices were the ones with a clear meaning to buyers.

How SoldComparables covers .ai

SoldComparables includes all 4,925 recorded .ai sales from the window above, each with its venue tier and a link to the public report it came from. A search for a .ai name finds comps by extension, length and word meaning, scores each one from 0 to 100 with plain reasons, and returns a low, likely and high estimate with separate wholesale and retail figures. For a broader view of the extension, see the .ai domain sales page, and for a list of the latest recorded sales across extensions, see recent domain sales. To value a specific name, run a domain appraisal search.

Frequently asked questions

What is the average price of a .ai domain?

The median recorded .ai sale between May 2021 and May 2026 was 2,125 USD, and 75.9 percent of recorded sales were below 5,000 USD. The average is higher because a few six-figure sales pull it up, so the median is the better guide to a typical sale.

What is the most expensive .ai domain sold?

In the recorded data from May 2021 to May 2026, the largest .ai sale was wisdom.ai at 750,000 USD (Grit Brokerage, 2025-10-13), followed by cloud.ai at 600,000 USD (GoDaddy, 2025-07-02) and blockchain.ai at 405,000 USD (Namecheap, 2025-10-12).

Are .ai domains still rising in value?

Recorded volume rose every year from 2022 to 2025, and individual names such as stack.ai and server.ai sold for many times their earlier prices. The median, however, stayed near 2,000 USD. Growth has come mainly from more sales and a higher top end, not from every name gaining value.

Do two-letter .ai domains sell for a lot?

They sell for more than most .ai names. Two-character .ai names had a median recorded sale of 5,049 USD, and letter pairs with a clear meaning did best, led by os.ai at 150,000 USD (Afternic, 2025-03-12). The median of the 38 letter-only pairs was 5,500 USD, so most sold well below the top names.