In a recent DomainIQ domain monitor alert I received, I saw a well-known AI company’s domain name had a status change. After looking into it and seeing nothing of importance, I became curious about what domain registrars some of the most well-known AI companies use for their primary domain name.
I asked ChatGPT and Claude to give me a list of prominent AI companies. I then used the two lists along with my own observations to create a curated list of notable AI companies. This is not a definitive ranking of top AI companies, but a representative group of top AI companies I could use to look into where their primary domain names are registered.
I did Whois searches for each companys’ primary domain name to see where it is registered. There may be situations where a company uses multiple domain registrars for different domain name assets.
Domain registrars used by prominent AI companies (in ABC order):
- Alibaba – Alibaba Cloud Computing
- Amazon – MarkMonitor
- Anthropic – MarkMonitor
- Anysphere (Cursor) – Namecheap
- Baidu – MarkMonitor
- Character.ai – GoDaddy
- Cohere – Tucows
- CoreWeave – GoDaddy
- DataBricks – Amazon Registrar
- DeepSeek – DNSPod
- ElevenLabs – MarkMonitor
- Google – MarkMonitor
- Figure AI – 101Domain
- Hugging Face – OVH
- Meta – RegistrarSafe (subsidiary of Meta)
- Microsoft – MarkMonitor
- Midjourney – GoDaddy
- Mistral AI – Cloudflare
- NVIDIA – Safenames
- OpenAI – MarkMonitor
- Palantir – MarkMonitor
- Perplexity – GoDaddy
- Safe Superintelligence – Cloudflare
- Scale AI – Amazon Registrar
- Stability AI – CSC
- Suno – GoDaddy
- Thinking Machines Lab – MarkMonitor
- xAI – MarkMonitor
