a-i.llc: AI, in three characters and a hyphen

ai.com sold for $70 million. Shop.com was reported at $90 million and Tokens.com at $5 million.

The hyphen is not a weakness. On a phone keyboard it is one extra tap, and on a letterhead it reads as a clear A, then an I. Nobody mistakes it for a word. That matters for a name used on invoices, contracts and bank mandates, where a misread name costs money.

The .llc ending tells the reader what they are dealing with: a limited liability company, not a hobby project. For an AI consultancy or a firm that sells models to other businesses, that signal carries weight on the first call.

The name links back to the rest of the family. The spelled-out version is ArtificialIntelligence.llc. The doubled form is aiai.llc. Readers who want to try a model before reading more can open AI chat.

Short names attract squatters and look-alike phishing domains. Swap a hyphen for a dot or an underscore and a fake inbox can look real. The defence is routine: registry lock, DNSSEC, strict email authentication with SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and a habit of checking the sender's domain letter by letter.

The Ask AI security pages explain how the platform protects accounts and agent keys. The same rules apply to every domain in the group.