Iwearglasses
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I was wondering is it worth getting unique ai domains and holding on to them. Thinking about the .com boom days.
Is it worth getting .ai domains and sitting on them.
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MKSKS
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Yes it can be of value seeing the AI trend currently.
I had a pleasant experience with a .io domain.
Bought it for a discounted price in 2017 on namecheap.
Had great backlinks from authority sites, it used to be a job niche startup in the US previously.
After 6 months got contacted by the previous owner.
They wanted the domain back alongwith my niche blog content.
Offer was to good to decline so, I took it.
I had a pleasant experience with a .io domain.
Bought it for a discounted price in 2017 on namecheap.
Had great backlinks from authority sites, it used to be a job niche startup in the US previously.
After 6 months got contacted by the previous owner.
They wanted the domain back alongwith my niche blog content.
Offer was to good to decline so, I took it.
Iwearglasses
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That is pretty cool.
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Idea is good and worth implementing.
How many domains can you hold? .ai domains are costlier than the regular.com domains by at least 5 times.
ifcmd
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Was this through Namecheap auctions? or did you use any services or that track/lists expired domains & find it that way?
Waifu_tatyana
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Get web3 domains instead. That's where the future of internet is.
You don't even have to pay a fortune to renew them every year.
Iwearglasses
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I was thinking about getting 2 and just holding on to them for some years. I had namecheap hosting already and had looked into their domains but they are indeed high.
MKSKS
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By discount I meant namecheap was running discount on .io registration.
No it wasn't auction domain.
I think it was from ahrefs broken links data for techcrunch or some other authority site.
It had expired recently & lot of it's pages were still indexed.
I was lucky because domains with that good a profile are difficult to catch.
But if you keep looking at these databases regularly once in a blue moon you may get lucky.
simplefresh
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Even without AI being hyped like it is right now, I would still bet on such domains due to the increasing laziness of the general population.
Iwearglasses
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Ok. Cool.
Ashk881
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Domain squatting is just too risky imo unless you have a big enough portfolio.
Instead of just buying and sitting on a domain name, develop it. Make some small ai micro-saas or smth. That's guaranteed to take that domain's value up.
Iwearglasses
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I am still trying to figure out how that works. Do you have any insight on it? Is this it in a nutshell people are building the site and using the chatgpt in the background for pulling information? If so Isn't this expensive?
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Ashk881
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Your best option is to just have an idea of a small product and get a developer to build it for you.
Also chatGPT api isn't that expensive. OpenAI sells their GPT3.5 model for $0.002/1k tokens.
Iwearglasses
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That is actually not a bad price for a small project.. I am a PHP developer.