A few days ago, a number of posts on X about Grok.Bot showed in my feed, including Damon Chen’s below. Someone had apparently registered the Grok.Bot domain name and put it up for sale.
This guy who owns https://t.co/LLGT1xvLIP updated his site 👇
Can he make it? pic.twitter.com/5uscxDsKEP
— Damon Chen (@damonchen) August 20, 2026
A post after Damon’s showed the owner of Grok.Bot apparently had a $1 million asking price for the domain name:
someone bought https://t.co/veJugmkLLb and is now asking elon musk to pay $1m for it pic.twitter.com/BV2UOSNz8P
— Abhijit (@abhijitwt) August 20, 2026
Later, the asking price was reduced to $300,000.
Unfortunately, for the registrant, it doesn’t look like X.AI is going to pay anything to acquire this domain name. In fact, the company filed a UDRP at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to get control over Grok.Bot.
Given the usage of the Grok term and the sales pitch on the landing page mentioning X.AI, I suspect this UDRP will go in favor of X.AI and the company will get the domain name. I’ll keep an eye on the UDRP and the domain name to see what happens.
The original trademark for grok in the USA by XAI LLC was in April 10, 2025. Though still pending, it was still filed. His wording is very specific on that site, but it will have been known that it was going to exist. So it wasn’t dumb luck, it was just dumb.