Grok is a generative AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company, xAI. Grok has been promoted within the X / Twitter ecosystem, and X users who subscribe to X Premium are able to access Grok.
Over the weekend, domain investor and developer Peter Askew shared Grok’s response to a query about selecting a domain name for development. Peter asked Grok to choose between Onions.com and Onions.net. Peter shared this with Grok’s response:
Dynadot just announced that it now offers customers the ability to make payments using cryptocurrency. The offering is made via Bitpay, which supports more than 100 crypto wallets and coin options. Customers can pay with Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrency options. Payments using cryptocurrency are available in USD.
Supplementing the email news release, Dynadot published a blog post with full details about this new payment option. For those who wish to pay using cryptocurrency, the process seems pretty easy:
.AI domain names have become a popular topic of late. Some of the most popular domain industry auctions these days are the monthly expiry auctions operated by the .AI ccTLD registry.
Sedo just announced it will be hosting its own auction featuring .AI domain names:
.AI #domains are more in demand than ever, because nobody can ignore the importance of #artificialintelligence anymore.
It's the best time to sell your #AI domain(s)! 🤖
Become part of our auction and apply now: https://t.co/SnCTVA5gNq pic.twitter.com/WMsyfyGyBz
— Sedo (@Sedo) March 14, 2024
Sedo’s Senior Broker Dave Evanson reported the sale of Scaffolding.com yesterday. The domain name sold for $46,666, and it was the largest domain name of the week publicly reported at Sedo.
Just sold https://t.co/oVaGP96hD4 for $46,666. Congrats to buyer and seller! It is already being used quite effectively. See for yourself …. https://t.co/oVaGP96hD4.
— dave evanson (@SedoDaveEvanson) March 12, 2024
Notably, the domain name is already being used by the buyer.
Yesterday, I saw a headline that an AI company called Cognition AI had raised $21 million in funding:
Cognition AI, which offers a Copilot-like coding assistant that, the startup says, can finish whole projects, raised $21M from Founders Fund, Elad Gil, and more (@ashleevance / Bloomberg)https://t.co/xbxGGDOhp1
📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIMhttps://t.co/TsSDhNJqnC
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) March 12, 2024
According to a press release that was published this morning, the Gold.com domain name was acquired by JM Bullion, a subsidiary of publicly traded A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. Gold.com was brokered by Andrew Miller of ATM Holdings, Inc., in conjunction with Hilco Digital Assets. Gold.com had been registered under Whois privacy, so I am unsure about who sold the domain name. Following the acquisition, JM Bullion now owns Gold.com and Silver.com.
In the press release, the CEO of JM Bullion shared the company’s rationale for acquiring this valuable domain name asset:
