Artificial intelligence is already having a modest impact on how I run my business. Unlike quite a few colleagues who have been ringing the register because of AI-related domain names, I don’t have many AI or .AI domain names in my portfolio.
I have been using AI to help with a variety of tasks related to my business. For the most part, I am using Chat.com and Grok. Occasionally, if I want more suggestions or am running into issues, I will use Claude from Perplexity. I am open to trying others though.
Here are some of the ways I use AI for my business:
Generate keyword and domain name suggestions – When I sell a domain name or see domain names sold by others, I will submit a prompt to generate similar types of domain names or keyword lists I can use to check domain name availability. I have registered many names this way. I previously wrote about selling a domain name I found with the help of Chat.com, and I am pretty sure I am now up to two sales.
Help with Excel functionality – Despite using Microsoft Excel daily for many years, I wouldn’t call myself an expert. Sometimes I need to purge domain names from a list or manipulate cells and don’t know how to do it. I have been using AI to learn how to operate Excel or simply have AI do the task for me. For instance, this week I exported a file and about 30 of the domain names were listed between 2-5x each. I asked Chat.com to delete the dupes and it was done faster than I could have done it myself.
Image generation – I have been using various AI image generators to create images for my domain name landing pages. You can have a look at Persistence.com and Molasses.com to see images I was able to create with AI. You’ll note that I have been crediting the AI generator at the bottom of the landing page.
Domain name valuation – When I have a large list of domain names that I am evaluating, I will use AI to highlight the domain names that could have the most value. I think my eyes are far better than AI for this, but I also think it’s helpful to have an outside opinion especially when there are many domain name to consider.
Email replies – If I am hitting a wall in a reply to a prospective buyer who wants to buy one of my domain names, sometimes I will run my response through Chat.com to check it for grammar and lightly edit the response. I will provide a prompt to suggest a tone and give a rough reply, and the AI will generate a response.
Using AI to auto generate content for the websites with any intervention.
I meant without any intervention.
Auto generate content
“…this week I exported a file and…”
Okay… so you exported a confidential file to an AI program. (It really doesn’t matter where it’s exported to however.)
Ummm, not for me thanks. My private information does not get exported anywhere. In fact I keep that information 100% in my brain and NOT EVEN on a computer which are all hackable – at worst it gets put with pen on paper and locked away.
It wasn’t a confidential file, but that is definitely something to consider.