.ai: Anna.ai sells for $350,000 and Ash.ai for $75,000

Key takeaways

Metaverse Invest reported selling Anna.ai, a one-word .ai registered in 2017.[24]
Lambda.si is believed to be the first publicly reported six-figure sale in .si.[14]
Tucows lowered guidance for its domains business and pointed to expired domains.[1]
A WIPO panelist found Neta Foundation guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over neta.org.[27]
iflip.com drew 96 bids at Dynadot and was still open in the latest recap.[25]
GNAME's weekly sales were led by a four-number .com sold at auction.[26]

This week in domains

Seller-reported prices for one-word .ai and .si names reached six figures this week, even as Tucows lowered its domains guidance and blamed expired domains.[24][14][1]

.ai: Metaverse Invest and James Booth report sales of Anna.ai and Ash.ai

What changedMetaverse Invest reported selling Anna.ai for $350,000 on November 7, 2026.
Who it affectsJames Booth sold Ash.ai, registered in 2017, through Atom.com, as he posted on November 6, 2026.

If you follow .ai, the week's largest reported price came on November 7, when Metaverse Invest, which holds 600 .ai domain names, said it sold Anna.ai. The company said it rarely posts its sales. The name was registered in 2017, and DotDB shows Anna registered in 392 extensions. TLD Investors noted that Anna.com currently shows an expired Squarespace account page. A day earlier, James Booth posted that he sold Ash.ai at Atom.com. That name also dates from 2017, and DotDB counts Ash in 375 extensions. Both prices come from the sellers' own posts, and neither source names a buyer. At the other end of the market, Sedo buy-it-now listings this week put LQG.ai at $330 and FQH.ai and Qito.ai at $400 each; those are asking prices, not sales. Shane Cultra of Domain Shane also wrote that he has been picking up .ai names at what he considers good prices. For you as a holder or buyer, the week adds two public, seller-reported prices for one-word .ai names, each tied to a word already registered in hundreds of other endings.[24][4][29][19]

Anna.ai	$350,000
Ash.ai	$75,000

Reported .ai sales this week

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.si: Lambda.si sale is believed to be the first publicly reported six-figure .si sale

Who it affectsJames Booth confirmed Lambda.si, registered in 2022, was his name.
What remains uncertainThe sale is described as believed to be the first publicly reported six-figure .si sale, not confirmed as such.

On November 3, DomainBooth, alongside Atom.com, announced what it believes is the first publicly reported six-figure .si sale: Lambda.si, at the price shown below. James Booth confirmed it was his name. It was registered in 2022, and DotDB shows Lambda registered in 364 extensions. The ending was already in the news: Domain Name Wire's roundup of its top October stories featured .si, and Shane Cultra wrote that .ai names have become "the stepchild to .si." Smaller .si names were still at auction at Catched, where anagram.si was bidding at $301 with 38 bids and recurse.si at $151 in the latest recap, both still open. At Sedo, Golden.si drew bids reaching 2,999 GBP. For anyone pricing .si names, this is a single public data point, set against open auctions that were mostly bidding in two and three figures.[14][2][29][25]

Lambda.si

$100,000

Reported .si sale this week

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GoDaddy: SPRK.com leads 56 expired-auction names that sold above $1k last week

What changedSPRK.com sold for $26,555 with 80 bids, topping the GoDaddy expired-auction roundup published November 8, 2026.
Who it affects56 tracked names sold for over $1k last week in GoDaddy expired auctions, per Domain Shane's roundup.
What remains uncertainThe roundup filters out most SEO-driven buys, so it does not show every GoDaddy expired-auction sale.

GoDaddy's expired auctions produced 56 tracked names that sold for over $1k last week, according to Domain Shane's weekly roundup published November 8, which filters out most SEO-driven buys. SPRK.com led with 80 bids, and the top six are listed below. Short names also showed up further down: OZAM.com closed at $3,716, Pen.co at $3,700 and MYBK.com at $3,361. The list ended with SuperBlends.com at $1,006. A separate Domain Shane list counted 61 expiring-auction sales of .com names starting with Go that closed since the start of 2025, led by GoSolar.com at $28,499 with 186 bids in January 2026. The lists say they carry affiliate links and paid placements. For you as a buyer or seller, these are recent closing prices you can set next to an asking price, rather than estimates.[18][6]

SPRK.com	$26,555
MindClone.com	$8,100
Almadina.com	$7,100
FloodPros.com	$6,600
WellBee.com	$6,206
GoImagine.com	$6,150

Top GoDaddy expired-auction sales in the roundup published November 8

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Dynadot: batbot.com closes at $3,750 as iflip.com bidding passes $5,000

What changedbatbot.com completed at $3,750 with 134 bids at Dynadot, per Domain Shane's November 5 and 6 recaps.
Who it affectsBidders on iflip.com: the Dynadot auction reached $5,108 with 96 bids and was listed as ending soon in the November 7 recap.
What remains uncertainThe final price of iflip.com is not in this week's sources; it was last shown active at $5,108.

Dynadot auctions tracked in Domain Shane's daily recaps closed six names above $1,500 this week, listed below, while the biggest bidding contest was still open. iflip.com climbed from $1,009 with 64 bids in the November 3 and 4 recaps to $2,605 with 75 bids on November 5, then to $5,108 with 96 bids, where it was marked as ending soon. tmnd.com held at $1,025 with 29 bids all week. Other closes included oyot.com at $1,226 and uxun.com at $765.01. Renewal costs came up too: backup.xyz closed at $548, and the list noted the name renews at $600, while Porn.xyz, flagged as expiring, renews at $2,725 a year. On Catched, smaller closes included chain.se at $145, superintelligence.se at $111 and anker.es at $64. For you, the recaps show both final prices and how bids built over several days, and the renewal notes put the yearly price next to the auction price.[22][9][5][30][25][19][18]

batbot.com	$3,750
kinetichealth.com	$3,049
sgyy.com	$2,009.40
knot.co	$1,980
roofer.org	$1,877
xhttp.com	$1,525

Completed Dynadot auctions in this week's Domain Shane recaps

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Tucows: lowers guidance for its domains business, citing expired domains

What changedTucows lowered its guidance for its domains business, Domain Name Wire reported on November 6, 2026.
Who it affectsFollowers of Tucows' domains business, as of the November 6, 2026 report, which ties the lower guidance to expired domains.
What remains uncertainThe supplied report does not give the size of the guidance reduction or the new figures.

Tucows lowered its guidance for its domains business, and the company attributed the reduction to expired domains, Domain Name Wire reported on November 6.[1]

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WIPO: panelist finds Neta Foundation guilty of reverse domain name hijacking

What changedA WIPO panelist found Neta Foundation, Inc. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over neta.org, reported November 5, 2026.
Who it affectsNeta Foundation, a nonprofit charitable asset manager using netafoundation.org, filed the cybersquatting complaint against neta.org.

A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist found Neta Foundation, Inc. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after it filed a cybersquatting complaint against neta.org, Domain Name Wire reported on November 5. The nonprofit, a charitable asset manager, uses netafoundation.org, and neta.org is a shorter version of that name. Domain Name Wire called the case dead on arrival. A second WIPO decision, involving the LIBBITCOIN open-source project, shows how community recognition can establish unregistered trademark rights, and how documented stewardship can support a successor maintainer's standing in a domain dispute. If you own a short name that matches part of an organization's longer domain, the neta.org finding shows a panel ruling against a complainant in that position, while the LIBBITCOIN case shows rights can exist without a registered trademark.[27][17]

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In short

GNAME weekly sales: GNAME's weekly report was led by 8526.com, sold at auction for $20,540, with F39.com topping buy-it-now sales at $15,971 and 5257.com selling for $12,000.[26]
Registrar DNSSEC study: A study of 698 ICANN-accredited registrar domains found fewer than one in ten have DNSSEC enabled on their own domains, even though registrars must offer it, with European registrars leading adoption.[11]
APT36 RapidRust investigation: A DNS investigation of APT36's RapidRust campaign linked infrastructure to four malware variants, uncovering 341 email-connected domains, two malicious IP addresses and 53 domains sharing naming patterns with known indicators.[8]
.de turns 40: Germany's country-code domain .de reached its 40th anniversary, Domain Name Wire reported on November 5.[7]
UDRP withdrawal attempt: In a UDRP case covered by the ICA UDRP Digest, the complainant asked to end the proceeding a day after the respondent filed its response on September 24, 2026, more than two weeks early; the respondent objected and asked for a decision.[15]

What to watch

NamesCon 2026 domain auction DomainSherpa's November 5 Sherpa Shorts previewed the NamesCon 2026 auction.[21]
ITU meeting and internet governance The Register reports internet governance faces its quadrennial stress test at an upcoming ITU meeting. The supplied report does not detail the date or the proposals under discussion.[28]
NamePros Best/Favorite Domain Registrar 2026 poll Voting opened on November 2. The open question is whether Dynadot keeps the lead it has held in recent years.[12]

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Dates and launches

9 November 2026 to 27 November 2026
ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2026 (PP-26)DNS and governance
10 November 2026
.eat general availabilityGeneral availability
10 November 2026
.fly general availabilityGeneral availability
10 November 2026
.here general availabilityGeneral availability
10 November 2026 to 11 November 2026
Global Anti-Scam Summit (GASS) Asia 2026Security and privacy
11 November 2026 to 12 November 2026
CloudFest AmericasHosting and cloud
11 November 2026 to 12 November 2026
NamesCon GlobalDomaining
11 November 2026 to 12 November 2026
NamesCon and CloudFest USA, Miami, USAEvent

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Questions investors are asking

Does GoDaddy register domain names that people search for on its site?

One long-time domain writer says no. He gave two reasons: GoDaddy would not risk a class-action lawsuit, and the names people point to are hand-registered names that were available for decades. He added that GoDaddy and Namecheap own large portfolios, which he sees as a conflict of interest, and said he trusts Dynadot and Atom more because they hold no portfolios of their own.[19]

What changed with the pending delete schedule for expiring domains?

The supplied source does not spell out the details of the change. For years his morning routine has been to review upcoming auctions at expiry and drop-catching platforms, using tools such as Dropping.pro and ExpiredDomains.net to pick targets before placing bids or backorders. The post shows the change reaches people who plan bids and backorders around daily drop lists.[10]

What makes people renew their domain names?

A study of about 40 million domain names across 10 ccTLDs found that domain age and registrant location are key factors in renewal rates. The authors say this points to retention strategies tailored to each registry's market. CircleID covered the study on November 3, 2026. The supplied summary does not say which 10 country endings were studied or give the renewal rates themselves.[16]

How do you choose domains to hand register?

Domain Name Wire's podcast episode 610, published November 2, 2026, is devoted to how to choose domain names to hand register; the supplied summary does not list its specific criteria. One example from the same week: Shane Cultra of Domain Shane wrote that he owns a few hundred .si names, many more than .ai, and that because he hand-registered them his cost is very low. He said the risk-reward is there for him.[13][29]

Which domain industry predictions turned out to be wrong?

A NamePros News article published November 3, 2026 reviews ten domain industry predictions that did not come true. The author limited the list to predictions that can be checked: ones published in interviews, filings and industry sources, not rumors. The writer notes that domainers' predictions usually involve something they are selling, investing in or hoping will take off. The supplied excerpt does not list the ten predictions themselves.[23]

Why is Rick Schwartz's Beanstalk Challenge suing another domain program?

Domain Name Wire reported on November 7, 2026 that Rick Schwartz's Beanstalk Challenge has filed a lawsuit against a competing domain startup program. The supplied report does not name the defendant, the court or the claims, so the reasons for the suit and what it asks for are not stated in this week's sources.[3]

What is Bret Miller's role at ATM Holdings?

DomainInvesting.com reported on November 2, 2026 that Bret Miller is taking on a growing role at ATM Holdings. The supplied excerpt of the post does not describe the new duties or title, so the details of the role are not available in this week's sources.[20]

Sources and citations

Each linked source opens the original publisher. Unique Domains summarizes and attributes this reporting without republishing the source article.

Written by an AI editor from the 30 sources above and checked against them on 9 November 2026.