AI Domain Prices in 2026
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Automated estimate for informational purposes only. Not financial or investment advice, and not a guarantee of sale price.
AI domain prices in 2026 cluster into readable bands: most reported .ai aftermarket sales land between $4,000 and $50,000, one-word .ai names clear six figures, and AI-keyword .coms trade at a premium over their non-AI equivalents. The .ai extension went from novelty to asset class in roughly five years; here is the price map as the desk reads it.
Why .ai prices hold up
Three structural facts, none of them hype. First, demand renews itself: every AI funding cycle mints companies that want the extension as a category signal, the way fintechs once chased .io. Second, supply is genuinely constrained: .ai is Anguilla's country-code registry with a small namespace, no promotional pricing tiers, and registration costs high enough to discourage bulk squatting. Third, renewals are expensive, which shakes weak hands out of the market and keeps listed inventory more serious than in cheap TLDs. Scarcity plus renewable demand is the whole story of any premium extension; .ai currently has both.
The 2026 price bands
| Name profile | Typical range | What moves it inside the band |
|---|---|---|
| One dictionary word .ai | $50,000 to $500,000+ | word quality, prior interest, funding season |
| Strong keyword .ai (agent, voice, model…) | $10,000 to $50,000 | keyword's commercial pull, length |
| Two-word tech compound .ai | $4,000 to $20,000 | pronounceability, how startup-like it sounds |
| Generic or dated compound .ai | $1,000 to $4,000 | mostly reseller-to-reseller trading |
| Long, hyphenated, or digit .ai | under $1,000 | rarely worth the renewal math |
Recent sales on our own comps ledger illustrate the middle of the market: agentbase.ai at $46,000, chatgrid.ai at $24,000, modelbay.ai at $19,500, promptline.ai at $12,000, visionport.ai at $8,800. You can see live asks against this history on the AI domains for sale board, and pull the comps for any specific name with a free domain appraisal. Three-letter .ai names sit in their own market above these bands, with a spread wide enough to need separate treatment: that is covered on 3 letter .ai domains.
.ai versus the AI-keyword .com
Founders routinely face the same fork: voicestack.ai or voicestack.com? The .com still carries the deeper buyer pool and resale market, and an AI-keyword .com inherits demand from both worlds, which is why names like copilotbase.com trade briskly. The practical rule: if the .com in your family is within budget, take it and treat the .ai as a defensive registration; if the .com holder wants a multiple you cannot defend with comps, the .ai alone is a legitimate 2026 brand, as several thousand funded startups demonstrate. Either way, read the comps corridor before either seller reads you.
Buying or selling into this market
Buyers: appraise first, offer inside the corridor, and route the close through domain escrow, since .ai transfers cross a small registry and discipline matters more, not less. The full mechanics are in how to buy a premium domain. Sellers holding .ai inventory: the renewal bill makes dead weight expensive, so run the whole list through bulk domain appraisal to separate the keepers from the drops, list the names with real demand, and let the comps justify your asks while the cycle is warm.
The sober paragraph
Every price band above is history, not prophecy. Extension premiums rotate with technology cycles; .ai renewals are high enough to punish speculation that doesn't sell; and a name is only worth what a documented buyer pays on the day. Buy names businesses need, price them against comps, and treat any projection, including ours, as an estimate for informational purposes rather than investment advice.