This afternoon, James Booth announced the $600,000 sale of Cloud.ai. The domain name was acquired anonymously by the buyer using GoDaddy’s Domain Broker Service (DBS). The buyer was represented by GoDaddy broker Tim Perkins.
The incredible 1-word domain https://t.co/YeFBSiQ7DG has just sold for a gross price of $600,000 USD! 💥
Sale completed via GoDaddy Brokerage Services which is a powerful signal of the growing strength of the .AI domain market. pic.twitter.com/WHXJY4TyBe— Domain (@domain) July 2, 2025
Notably, James mentioned the sale price of $600,000, and the screenshot James shared indicates he will receive a payout of $500,000. With the DBS service, the buyer pays GoDaddy’s fee, which is generally 20%. I suppose when you’re dealing with large sales like this, the fee can be a bit negotiable.
When NameBio adds this sale to its database, it will become the largest publicly reported .AI domain name sale year to date and the second largest .AI sale of all time, following the $700,000 sale of You.ai. Given the strength of the .AI domain name aftermarket market right now, I would be surprised if it stays at the top of the chart when the year ends.
The .AI aftermarket is hot right now – even I sold one for five figures via Atom.com today. I guess announcing mine is like showing up to a champagne party with a bottle of J. Roget while James shows up with a Jeroboam of Dom Perignon.
Yes, great sale. And James and Andy did an amazing job, getting AI names, when most good ones had been scooped up by 2016.
Check the appraisals of Cloud.ai on the many AI tools. including GD, Atom, Estibot and even the recently launched AI domain tools that give excellent appraisals for premium .com names, but underperform when appraising single solid keyword .AI domains (which are riding the AI rev)
Also check out the funding rounds of companies in 2025…nearly all companies (90 percent or more) are either .com or .ai
History has shown that transformative technologies —nuclear power, space exploration, computing, internet, biotech, nanotech and now AI — create a cultural moment where businesses adopt related terms or aesthetics to project innovation. That transformative tech-inspired branding value often fades as the technology becomes normalized.
The domain is currently listed on Atom for $750,000:
https://www.atom.com/name/Cloud.ai