Crypto.com founder and CEO Kris Marszalek has reportedly acquired the premium domain ai.com for $70 million, setting a new high for publicly disclosed domain sales. According to the Financial Times, domain broker GetYourDomain.com said the deal closed in April 2025 and was paid بالكامل in cryptocurrency.
The price resets the benchmark for the domain market. The previous public record was set in 2019, when EOS developer Block.one bought Voice.com for $30 million. Marszalek has made major domain purchases before as well, including the $12 million acquisition of crypto.com in 2018.
ai.com Positioned as a Consumer AI Agent Platform
The purchase lands at a time when AI spending is expanding rapidly. Gartner data cited in the report says global AI-related spending in 2025 is nearing $1.5 trillion. Bloomberg also reported that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft plan to spend a combined $650 billion this year on AI infrastructure.
ai.com is not being presented as a simple branding asset. The company said it is launching a consumer platform built around autonomous AI agents, which are designed to carry out practical tasks on behalf of users. The examples listed include workflow automation, stock trading, and daily schedule management. In a statement, Marszalek said AI is moving beyond chat interfaces and toward systems that can actually get things done, adding that his vision is a decentralized network made up of billions of agents that learn independently and share improvements.
Super Bowl Ad Triggered Traffic Surge and Outage
To promote the rollout, ai.com ran a 30-second television ad during prime time in the 59th Super Bowl, identified in the report as Super Bowl LX. The traffic spike that followed overloaded the servers and knocked the site offline for several hours.
Marszalek said on X on Monday that the team had prepared with stress testing, but the level of incoming traffic still exceeded expectations. He also said earlier on the 10th that the full product would be released to registered ai.com users within 48 hours. Because of the size of the queue, the launch is being handled in phases to keep infrastructure stable.