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Domain name AI.com(opens in new tab) Now forwards to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The domain was acquired in 2021, but it was only this week that it resolved to his actual website.
Mashable spoke with Saw.com’s Jeffrey Gabriel, a prominent domain broker credited with facilitating the sale.(opens in new tab),Please look at the details.Gabriel was a broker(opens in new tab) involved in breaking records at the time Sale of (opens in new tab)sex dot com(opens in new tab) Acquired domain for $13 million in 2010.
Due to the terms of the sale, Gabriel said he could not fully confirm who the AI.com purchaser was.(opens in new tab) But the conversation left little room for interpretation. Alternative explanations, such as someone giving his OpenAI a huge multi-million dollar bounty, skew the plausibility.
Mashable has asked OpenAI to confirm that it is the purchaser of the domain, but the company has yet to respond.
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“It’s obviously public information when you go there,” Gabriel told Mashable.
As for the final selling price, Gabriel says the domain is “similar” to AI.com.(opens in new tab) Over $10 million in today’s market. Gabriel also said that prior to the acquisition AI.com(opens in new tab) It went public at a public offering price of $11 million.
According to Gabriel, AI.com(opens in new tab) Since I started brokering domains, I have received offers regularly.
“Every week someone was giving $100, $200, $1 million,” he says.
Gabriel said one of the interested buyers was Amazon, but he believes their interest was in using the domain for upcoming Amazon internet products rather than artificial intelligence-based products. However, the e-commerce giant eventually gave up on buying the domain. Interestingly, according to Gabriel, his companies investing in AI, such as Nvidia and Intel, have shown no interest when approached in this area.
“It’s interesting to sell a name like this and go to an industry leader,” Gabriel said. “Often, they don’t want them or are unwilling to pay a higher price tag. There needs to be something that makes them more memorable to create recognition of industry leadership.”
“I don’t know if now [the buyer] I really needed it,” he continued. Done in weeks or months, right? This kind of buzz and use will take 10 or 20 years for some companies to reach. “
Due to their brevity and rarity, two-letter .com domain names are considered one of the holy grails of domains within the industry. There are only 676 possible combinations, all registered for a long time.according to NameBio(opens in new tab) and DN Journal(opens in new tab), two websites that track public domain sales, even the most random two-letter .com combination has never sold for less than $100,000 in at least the last decade. Last Year’s Top Two-Letter Domain Sales, IT.com(opens in new tab)was acquired for $3.8 million.
Domain dealers such as domain investment(opens in new tab) First reported about the sale of AI.com(opens in new tab) In September 2021, I noticed that my domain was transferred. Future Media Architects, a domain investment firm with tens of thousands of domain names in its portfolio, owned AI.com.(opens in new tab) 15 years before the sale, Gabriel said. After acquisition of AI.com(opens in new tab) It was completed, but the domain was unused during this entire time.Then, on February 15, 2023, some social media users news(opens in new tab) That AI.com(opens in new tab) I was forwarding to ChatGPT.
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“The cat came out of the bag! We are proud to be part of Ai.com.(opens in new tab) domain sales. Excited to see what they do with it!” @sawsells posted with the ChatGPT hashtag included.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT first went public in November 2022 and quickly became the face of an explosive artificial intelligence trend in the tech world. In just two months, ChatGPT gained his over 100 million user base, growing rapidly Best app ever.
Despite the growing popularity of AI apps, Gabriel believes the selling price wouldn’t have changed much if he had acquired it today instead of a year and a half ago, due to various economic-related issues. However, he believes that more than a few companies probably regret their choice not to pursue a domain.
“Many companies have had the opportunity to buy it, and now that Mashable has reported it, that probably means Microsoft knows about it. [the buyer] Well, Amazon will know it was sold to someone,” Gabriel says.
