A Medium essay calls ai.com the most expensive domain in history and a gateway to decentralized AGI agents. The first half is a disclosed price. The second half is a slogan. The address was sold. The agent the advert promised is still a queue.
The Financial Times reported on 6 February 2026 that Kris Marszalek, co-founder and chief executive of Crypto.com, had bought ai.com for $70 million, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an undisclosed seller. Marszalek did not confirm the figure. Larry Fischer of GetYourDomain.com, the broker, did. The Block later reported the contract closed in April 2025, that the name had been listed with a $100 million ask in March 2025, and that the seller was Arsyan Ismail. Marszalek told the FT he takes a 10 to 20 year view of artificial intelligence, and that owning the touchpoint matters “otherwise you get commoditised.” The work connects to Artificial Intelligence and enterprise artificial intelligence, with Super Intelligence technology, Ask AI token, Zero Trust security under ai.com, and to Domain Investors where the names are held.
That $70 million is the highest price publicly disclosed for a domain name. It is not “the most expensive domain in history” in the way a headline wants, because private sales are not on the record. Among disclosed sales, TechCrunch put the previous marks at CarInsurance.com for $49.7 million in 2010, VacationRentals.com for $35 million in 2007, and Voice.com for $30 million in 2019. Seventy does not dwarf 49.7. It does beat it. A Medium comparison that jumps to a reported $350 million resale of Business.com is the wrong yardstick: figures of that size have included a website or a business, not only the name. Domain Investors treats asking prices and completed, name-only sales as different numbers.
Ismail has told Malaysian reporters he registered ai.com on 4 May 1993 for $100, on his mother’s card, because the letters were his initials, Arsyan Ismail. Other accounts put the name through later portfolios and a 2021 transfer with an asking price near $11 million. Both can be partly true. A first registration and a later sale are not the same trade. The useful public facts are the 1993 date he stands by, the April 2025 buyer, and the $70 million Fischer confirmed.
The product is a separate fact. Marszalek unveiled the site in a Super Bowl LX commercial on 8 February 2026. The pitch was a personal agent that could message, use apps and trade stocks. Traffic took the site down for hours. On 30 September 2026 Cointelegraph reported that a Crypto.com spokesperson still described ai.com as “building in stealth mode,” and that visitors were told agent generation was queued. Eight months after the advert, the decentralized network of self-improving agents was not a product a reader could open. A domain can be a front door. A queue is not AGI.
A two-letter .com tied to the category name is scarce, which is why the price cleared. Scarcity is not the same as a working platform. Readers who want agents, models and tools they can open now are not waiting on that waitlist. They are on Artificial Intelligence, the platform this magazine already publishes, with the same shelf at enterprise artificial intelligence. The most expensive domain on the public record is a name, held in the book of Domain Investors, beside UK domain investment and Domain Investors LLC. AI Super Intelligence is a different claim from the queued AGI agents. The sale of ai.com is a domain record. It is not proof that the gateway has been built.
The working pages, not the slogan, are about the LLC, contact Ask Ai and contact the LLC.
Published by USA Time Magazine. The company is Domain Investors. The card behind the technology desk is Artificial Intelligence, with enterprise artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence India, AI technology and a UK artificial intelligence company.
