Historical context shows AI.com previously connected to OpenAI/ChatGPT and later redirected to Elon Musk’s xAI before the latest sale clarified current ownership.

Marszalek announced the acquisition on X and the site went live the same day as the Super Bowl, with the purchase timing reportedly in April prior to the sale and launch aligned to the event.

Marszalek had acquired ai.com in April 2025, assembling a team and sharing deal updates on X about advancing autonomous AI and real-world task automation.

AI.com, a premium domain owned by Kris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com, was launched with a sign-up flow that lets users log in with Google to reserve a unique @ handle and a separate AI handle, with identity verification via credit card; high-profile users may reserve handles matching their X accounts.

Marszalek publicly described AI.com’s purpose and its potential social-media integration on X, positioning it as part of a broader strategy to accelerate autonomous AI and real-world task automation.

The domain was brokered by Larry Fischer of Get Your Domains, with its March 2025 asking price of $100 million and a final sale price $30 million below that figure.

The product was slated to launch around the Super Bowl, with AI.com’s Super Bowl LX commercial tying into the rollout of an autonomous AI agent offering.

The seller was identified as Arsyan Ismail, an early Bitcoin investor who bought the domain for about $10 million from Future Media Architects and publicly disclosed the acquisition ahead of the Super Bowl release.

The sale set a record, netting $70 million in cryptocurrency, surpassing the prior record and marking a milestone in domain-name transactions.

According to Financial Times, the buyer-seller dynamic involved Malaysian entrepreneur Arsyan Ismail selling ai.com to Kris Marszalek for $70 million, highlighting the highest publicly disclosed domain price.

AI.com debuted with a Super Bowl ad inviting users to reserve usernames and AI handles, featuring Google login and credit-card verification for identity, though verification incurs no charge.

Post-p acquisition, Marszalek announced he would lead both ai.com and Crypto.com as CEO, framing AI.com as a vehicle to build a decentralized network of autonomous AI agents aimed at accelerating AGI.