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There was 112,022 active .ai domain in November 2021.<ref>[https://whois.marcaria.com/en/america/ai-domain-search .AI Whois – Domain Search in Anguilla]</ref>
 
There was 112,022 active .ai domain in November 2021.<ref>[https://whois.marcaria.com/en/america/ai-domain-search .AI Whois – Domain Search in Anguilla]</ref>
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==Valuation==
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$100 is charged per year for the domain. The "'''.ai'''" registry follows extensible Provisioning Protocol. As a result, the .ai domain is sold by many registrars. That is why .ai ccTLD is also popular among Artificial Intelligence companies. These trends are most popular among newly established AI companies and startups. Many companies do not use the .ai domain to develop their websites. For example, DeepMind used the .com domain to develop its website, and Facebook has changed its domain to ai.facebook.com.<ref>[https://analyticsindiamag.com/is-ai-domain-name-extension-any-valuable-for-ai-startups-or-just-a-marketing-ploy/ Is .AI Domain Name Extension Any Valuable For AI Startups Or Just A Marketing Ploy?], Analytics India Magazine</ref>
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Till November 2021, expert.ai was the most expensive AI domain ever sold in history. Sedo brokered and mediated the selling of this domain in June 2020. It was sold at the price of €95,000 or $2.9 million.<ref>[https://www.nominus.com/en/dm/blog/domain-names/country-domains/october-2021/interest-in-ai-domains-skyrockets Interest in .AI domains skyrockets], Nominus.com</ref>
    
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