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title: ".ai Domain Names — Register a .ai Domain | Name.ai"
description: "Register a .ai domain. Pricing, registration terms, who .ai suits, and premium .ai domains available now on the Name.ai marketplace."
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# .ai Domain Names — Register a .ai Domain | Name.ai

.ai is the country-code extension for Anguilla, adopted globally as the default signal for artificial-intelligence products and companies. It carries higher registry pricing than most generic extensions and is typically sold on a multi-year minimum term, so it is a deliberate brand decision rather than a cheap defensive registration.

## Character

- Operated by the registry for Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, and open to registrants worldwide with no local presence requirement.
- Registry pricing sits well above generic extensions such as .com or .xyz, and renewals stay at that level — budget for the recurring cost, not just the first term.
- Adoption is strongest where the AI capability is the product itself rather than a feature, which is why the extension reads as a category signal rather than a fallback.

## Good for

- AI-first products where the model or agent is the product
- Research labs and tooling companies addressing a technical audience
- Teams whose exact-match .com is unavailable or priced out of reach

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## Frequently asked questions

### Is a .ai domain good for SEO?

Google treats .ai as a generic top-level domain for ranking purposes, so the extension itself neither helps nor harms rankings. What matters is the content, the site experience and the links pointing at it — the same factors that apply to a .com.

### Do I need to be in Anguilla to register a .ai domain?

No. There is no local presence requirement for .ai — registrants worldwide can register one. Any registrant restrictions that do apply to your registration are listed in the registration requirements on this page, which are read live from the registry data.

### Why are .ai domains more expensive than .com?

The price is set by the registry that operates the extension, not by the retailer. .ai carries a higher wholesale cost than generic extensions, and because that cost applies to renewals as well as the first term, the difference recurs every year you hold the name.

## Live data

Registration price, minimum term, registrant and nameserver requirements for .ai are read from registry data at request time and are not reproduced here. Machine-readable equivalents:

- Pricing: `GET https://name.ai/api/pricing/tld`
- Requirements: `GET https://name.ai/api/tlds/ai/metadata`
- Availability for a specific name: `POST https://name.ai/api/domain/search`

Premium .ai domains available now: [https://name.ai/market?tld=ai](https://name.ai/market?tld=ai).

Copy last revised 2026-08-19.

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