Runway.com Acquired by Runway AI via ATM Holdings

A domain with a runway of its own just changed hands, and the new owner shares the name of the tenant.

Runway.com is a two-word, dictionary-grade asset. It belongs to the small club of generic .coms that every AI lab, video platform, and creative-tools company would love to own. So when it moves, the question is never whether it was sold. The question is who finally paid the toll.

Andrew Miller of ATM Holdings is the broker of record. ATM has been the quiet clearinghouse for premium domain transactions for years, listing names on its own marketplace and shepherding transfers behind the scenes. The fact that the deal is announced through ATM, rather than through a press release from the buyer, tells you the buyer prefers to stay offstage for now.

The Whois trail is the tell. Tucows to Namecheap, privacy re-enabled. That is the standard choreography for a high-value domain changing hands without leaving a forwarding footprint. The seller wanted distance. The buyer wanted silence. Both got it.

Runway AI is the obvious beneficiary. The company has been building a brand on a shorter runway.ai and various subdomains. Owning the .com removes a permanent vulnerability. Every competitor, every knockoff site, every phishing campaign that wanted to ride the brand had a cheap parking option. That option is now closed.

The price is not disclosed, and it will not be. Seven-figure transactions in this tier are reported in whispers, not headlines. But the structure of the deal — broker-led, privacy-shielded, no public financing — suggests a strategic buyer paying strategic money, not a speculator flipping a parking page.

The real story is defensive. In the AI sector, the .com is not a marketing luxury. It is infrastructure. Whoever holds runway.com now holds the address book for the category.