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.AI & .Com Take Full Control of Latest Domain Sales Chart With Every Sale in the Top 10 Reaching Six Figures

The chart no longer measures the domain market; it measures the AI gold rush.

Every top ten sale crossed six figures, but the real story isn't price. It's the extension. .ai took eight of ten slots.

Spaceship's 'bombshell release' is the kind of event that resets expectations. A single registrar's inventory dump can reshape an entire leaderboard in one week.

The chart's message: buyers are paying premiums for relevance, not rarity. A startup with 'something.ai' signals machine-learning intent instantly; the registry is just collecting the toll.

.com didn't disappear. It holds the remaining top slots and a couple of positions overall. It remains the default, but it's no longer the story.

The fact that all ten reached six figures is less about a rising tide and more about the concentration of capital into one speculative lane.

Watch the distribution: 22 of 25 positions are .ai. That's not diversification. That's a signal that investors are treating AI-related digital real estate as a single asset class.

.com still has a seat at the table, but it has become the adult supervision in a room driven by AI-hype urgency.

The 'extra spo...' in the excerpt likely refers to .com spoilers, but the nuance doesn't matter much. The market has a new center of gravity.

  • A mechanic worth scanning: registrar inventory releases are now market-moving events. Treat them as liquidity events, not news items.
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