Reglikedomain industry desk

Of expired .ai domains sold today — Over $160k

Of expired .ai domains sold today — Over $160k

Dynadot’s monthly .ai auction concludes today.

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Dynadot’s monthly .ai expired domain auction concludes this morning.

Many of the auctions have by now closed, but the auctions have generous extensions for late bids, so others will close later today.

192 of the 1,714 expired domains received bids. As of 9 a.m. PST, the bids total regarding $160,000, but that’s sure to rise as the auctions receive more bids.

The highest completed auctions as of 9 am are:

pinecone.ai $14,200
drafts.ai $13,201
detail.ai $12,700
workmate.ai $10,201
administrator.ai $3,550
z1.ai $2,570
superficial.ai $2,501
surpreme.ai $2,051
nexo.ai $2,026
icp.ai $2,001

With time still remaining, these domains have bids over $1,000:

bart.ai
anagram.ai
qube.ai
antenna.ai
storyline.ai
opulence.ai
gigantic.ai
nautical.ai
exterior.ai
smartmedia.ai
ata.ai
devtools.ai
automaton.ai
teaser.ai
alumni.ai
balancer.ai
kismet.ai
commercials.ai
rita.ai
linking.ai
skybridge.ai

The expired domain auctions, in conjunction with the .ai registry, are fairly fresh to Dynadot and are part of its buyout of Park.io. Auctions begin the last Friday of every month and bids start at $140.

.Ai is the country code for Anguilla, but its domains are popular since of their use by artificial intelligence firms.

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