.ai

Type:	Private
Industry:	Telecommunications, Registry
Ownership:	Offshore Information Services
Country:	Anguilla
Website:	Nic.com.ai

Anguilla is a British overseas territory. It is situated in the Caribbean region. .ai is the country code and top-level domain of Anguilla. The Government of Anguilla controls this domain. The domain is popular among the companies working in Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector.

Second and third level registrations

There are no restrictions for registrations within org.ai, com.ai, net.ai, and off.ai domains globally. On the other hand, there are certain restrictions when it comes to top-level domains. However, from 15 September 2009, .ai will be available for everyone across the globe to register.

Registration

The minimum tern allowed for registration within the .ai domain is 2 years with the same 2 years renewal limit. WHOIS.AI is the central authority responsible for managing the extension. The registration process started on 16 February 1995. The minimum length required at the time of registration was 2, with a minimum of 63 characters. There is no restriction for anyone. A resident of any country and nationality can register in this domain.

The domain can be suspended and revoked if any illegal activity is found. In case of copyright or trademark issues, serious actions will be taken against the person. The laws of the government of Anguilla must be followed at every cost.

The Anguillan government uses USRP. If you want to file a UDRP challenge, you must use an approved ICANN Dispute Resolution Service Provider for this. ICANN registrar will work with the arbitrator if the domain is an ICANN accredited registrar. It means either doing nothing or transferring the domain. The registration of the .ai domain is done using and maintaining EPP, and it means that, ai domain can be transferred to any desired registrar.

A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and hyphen are included in the character set of the .ai domain. IDN characters are not allowed in this domain. The auction of expired domains is held after every 10 days, where they are presented and sold to the subsequent buyers.

There was 112,022 active .ai domain in November 2021.

Valuation

$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.

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.

Impact on Anguilla's Economy

A fee is charged when someone registers within this domain. The government of Anguilla collects the registration fee, and it directly goes into its treasury. According to a report published by New York Times, a total of $2.9 million in revenue was generated by selling the domain authority by the government back in 2018.Anguilla, with its domain name, cashes in on a quirky trend, Chicago Tribune</ref>

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