{"id":457937,"date":"2026-02-09T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457937\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:52:10","slug":"crypto-com-places-70m-bet-on-ai-com-domain-ahead-of-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457937\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Financial Times<\/a>. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an unknown seller, shatters previous records. (Broker Larry Fischer, who facilitated the sale, is presumably celebrating his good fortune.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marszalek plans to debut the site during Sunday\u2019s big game, offering consumers a personal AI agent for messaging, app usage, and stock trading. \u201cIf you take a long-term view \u2014 10 to 20 years \u2013 [AI] is going to be one of the greatest technological waves of our lifetime,\u201d he told the FT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The purchase rewrites the domain record books \u2014 not that crypto industry itself is known for its restraint when it comes to spending. Previously, CarInsurance.com held the crown at $49.7 million (2010), followed by VacationRentals.com ($35 million in 2007) and Voice.com ($30 million in 2019). Other eye-popping sales include PrivateJet.com ($30 million), 360.com ($17 million), and Sex.com, which has sold twice for over $13 million each time, though its second owner <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90332346\/how-the-epic-feud-over-the-rights-to-the-sex-com-domain-ended-with-the-ultimate-deception\" target=\"_blank\">went bankrupt <\/a>trying to monetize it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith assets like AI.com, there are no substitutes,\u201d Fischer told the FT. \u201cWhen one becomes available, the opportunity may never present itself again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether these mega-dollar domains actually deliver returns remains an open question. But for Marszalek, who already owns Crypto.com and dropped $700 million on stadium naming rights, owning two category-defining domains is apparently worth the outlay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,43506,213975,1803],"class_list":["post-457937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-crypto-com","tag-kris-marszalek","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}