Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com , announced that he purchased the AI.com domain name for $70 million in cryptocurrency last April, paying the full amount in digital assets.
According to Larry Fischer of domain brokerage GetYourDomain.com, this deal breaks the record for the most publicly disclosed domain transaction ever, previously held by CarInsurance.com, which sold for nearly $50 million.
Kris Marszalek stated, "I acquired AI.com in April (2025) and have been building a team ever since. There have been ups and downs, but I'm incredibly excited about the first launch during this Sunday's Super Bowl."
What is AI.com?
According to the official press release, AI.com positions itself as a consumer-grade autonomous AI agent platform. Unlike chatGPT, Claude, and other conversational AI assistants, AI.com's core selling point is that your AI agent doesn't just answer questions; it actually does things for you.
The platform's main features include:
- Get started in 60 seconds: It only takes about 60 seconds for a user to register and have a working AI agent, without any technical knowledge required.
- Autonomous task execution: Agents can organize work, send messages, perform operations across applications, build projects, and even trade stocks or update personal profiles on dating apps on behalf of users.
- Self-evolution capability: AI.com's core differentiating feature lies in the fact that its agents can autonomously develop missing functions and capabilities to complete real-world tasks. An improvement developed by one agent will be shared with millions of agents on the network, creating a "collective evolution" effect.
- Free Start + Paid Subscription: Users can start using it for free, while advanced features and higher usage limits are unlocked through a paid subscription.
AI.com's parent company has changed repeatedly: from Google to OpenAI.
The domain name AI.com is itself a microcosm of technological history. It was first registered in May 1993 and was subsequently held by Google for a long period.
In 2023, OpenAI acquired AI.com from Google for approximately $11 million. At the time, the domain directly redirected to the ChatGPT page.
In 2024, the ownership of AI.com experienced a period of confusion. The domain name once redirected to the page of xAI, a company owned by Elon Musk, then briefly pointed to the AI video generation service of YouTuber Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), and even redirected to the official website of DeepSeek at one point.
In April 2025, Kris Marszalek acquired AI.com for $70 million, nearly 6.4 times the price OpenAI paid for it.
It's worth noting that Kris Marszalek has become addicted to acquiring top-level domains for exorbitant prices. In 2018, he bought the Crypto.com domain from cryptography professor Matt Blaze for approximately $12 million, changing his company name from Monaco to Crypto.com and embarking on the brand's global expansion. In retrospect, that $12 million investment was truly one of the most worthwhile domain transactions in history.
Super Cup premiere
AI.com will officially debut its brand advertisement on NBC during the Super Bowl LX tomorrow (February 8th), reaching a global audience. This year's Super Bowl has become a battleground for exposure for the AI industry, with tech giants such as Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, and Meta all running AI-related ads. AI.com will be the only participant with a cryptocurrency background.
Is $70 million a worthwhile domain name? $70 million sounds crazy, but from a brand value perspective, the three letters "AI.com" are probably the most commercially valuable domain name in the online world today, bar none.
