AI is assessed as a position for models, reasoning, intelligent products and applied research. Its researched evidence includes documented domain-sale evidence, IANA evidence for the existing .ai namespace. The strategic, commercial, future, linguistic and N-o1-fit inputs are editorial judgments. Missing sale, registration and search evidence is left unknown rather than invented. .AI is Anguilla’s ccTLD; artificial-intelligence positioning does not change that technical classification.
Scarcity: Exact N-o1 names are exclusive under existing namespace terms. Registry delegation or an application does not establish second-level availability or quantified scarcity.
Score inputs and evidence coverage
Factor
Input /100
Weighted points
Assessment / source basis
Historical .COM sale evidence
100
15.00
Only an evidenced domain-only price contributes to this factor; input=min(100,100×log10(1+USD price)/log10(70,000,001)).
.COM / category strategic strength
98
14.70
Editorial rubric: core category / widely reusable position. This is not a .COM transaction claim.
Existing TLD / namespace adoption
20
2.00
Minimal namespace-maturity credit for a documented delegation (20/100). No registration volume is inferred.
2026 ICANN application demand
Unknown
0 · missing evidence
Unknown: not present in the contention-set source used here. Absence from that file does not prove zero applications; uncontested applications are outside its scope.
Search / category demand
Unknown
0 · missing evidence
Unknown: no search-volume or category-demand measurement was verified; zero contribution.
Commercial market strength
95
9.50
Editorial assessment of monetisation fit for ai & intelligence; no market-size or revenue estimate is asserted.
AI / SI / future relevance
100
10.00
Editorial relevance to future digital products in ai & intelligence; not a growth forecast.
Brevity and memorability
100
5.00
Length-based editorial proxy: 2 characters; input=max(35,110−5×length), capped at 100. It does not measure recall in user studies.
Global linguistic usability
90
4.50
Editorial linguistic usability assessment: cross-market term / acronym; no multilingual survey is claimed.
N-o1 positioning fit
100
10.00
Editorial fit between AI and a category-defining N-o1 identity.
Category strength, commercial strength, future relevance, brevity, global usability and N-o1 fit are editorial assessments. Scores are not valuations.
Market evidence
EXISTING EXTENSION
.AI · country-code TLD
IANA lists .ai as country-code; sponsoring manager: Government of Anguilla. This confirms namespace existence, not unrestricted registration, popularity, a sale price or second-level availability.
Verified source · Evidence date: Not stated · Checked: 2026-10-08
VERIFIED DOMAIN SALE
AI.com · broker-reported domain-only sale
The transaction broker announced $70 million for AI.com. Verified here means the primary-source announcement was checked, not an independent audit of payment. The date is the announcement date.
AI.N-o1.com is offered through an exclusive, renewable licence within N-o1.com. The other addresses are independently registered domains shown for comparison; N-o1.com does not offer them.
.AI is Anguilla’s ccTLD; .IO is the British Indian Ocean Territory ccTLD; .SI is Slovenia’s ccTLD. Their commercial positioning does not change their technical type. AI.SI registration, asking price and availability are not independently verified here. IANA delegation record.