Who recently bought .ai domains, and what they sold for previously

The .ai domain boom is now a resale market, and the only thing cheaper than the hype is the original registration cost.

Richard Kirkendall’s post isn’t a market report; it’s a customer testimonial for Spaceship Sellerhub, dressed up as a data drop.

‘Recent sales’ is doing the heavy lifting. A five-year window flattens into a single scoop, which makes every .ai sale look like a pulse when it’s more of a memory.

The real leverage was never the domain. It was Anguilla’s registry, which minted a currency out of the AI craze with zero backend risk.

Every five-figure sale you see is the tail of a distribution. The other thousands of .ai registrations are already in the renewal-to-lapse churn, silently funding the winner’s payout.

If you’re buying .ai today, you’re not a pioneer. You’re providing exit liquidity to someone who read the internet’s mood five years earlier than you, and knows exactly how to frame the sale to make it look like a signal.

The question isn’t who bought. It’s who’s still holding the bag after the auction dust settles.