Have we achieved peak AI hype when a two-word, 19-letter, 7-syllable .com domain name sells for six figures with no negotiation whatsoever?
Thank you to @GoDaddy's @Afternic team for building a brand and platform that end users trust enough to spend that much on https://t.co/CJ4Djyo83h without blinking. Or, maybe it was an Agentic AI agent that cannot blink at all? 🤷♂️
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I checked with Claude on the stats. I was off a bit on today’s homeownership rate but in the right ballpark:
“The current US homeownership rate is about 65%—65.7% in Q4 2025  by Census Bureau data, and 65.2% for the 2025 annual figure . The 69% number was the all-time peak, hit back in 2004 (69.2%), before falling for 12 straight years.”
Apparently I was wrong on the country with the highest homeownership rate — “China around 96%, Romania ~95%, Kazakhstan ~95%, Slovakia ~93%, Hungary ~92% . Singapore is around 90%, driven by its public housing (HDB) scheme .”
I was spot on about Germany though: “In Germany, renting is a normalized, mainstream choice there rather than a fallback. This is usually attributed to strong tenant protections, the absence of mortgage interest tax deductions, and a culture where renting carries no stigma.”
The #1 mistake buyers make is caring more about comparables than vision.
Comps don’t matter.
Valuations don’t matter.
Other people’s opinions don’t matter.
The only thing that matters is:
“What does this domain unlock for your growth over the next 5–10 years?”
My biggest deal of all-time was for a 2-word .COM everyone else would’ve called “significantly overvalued.”
But for the buyer, it accelerated their roadmap, replaced their weaker “Plan B” domain, and became a foundational part of their infrastructure.
Smart buyers think in future value, not market comps.
@BlackLabelAdvsr You’re not the target demographic— empty nesters who want luxury but low maintenance while they are away traveling for a good % of the time. Convenience.
99% of domain investors will completely miss that the primary keyword of long-term, repeatable value here is “Intelligence”, not “Agentic”. IYKYK. I set a 6-figure BIN because of the noun, not the adjective — just as I’ve done with Bot, Trade, and X as adjectives modifying “Intelligence” in other .com domains in my portfolio. “Agentic” happens to be the trendiest adjective modifying “Intelligence” at the moment so it sold faster. “Agentic” will come and go; “Intelligence” has greater permanence.
HT to @domainpro for influencing me at some point over the past 18 months to increase the BINs on most of my “Intelligence” domains. 🙏
Have we achieved peak AI hype when a two-word, 19-letter, 7-syllable .com domain name sells for six figures with no negotiation whatsoever?
Thank you to @GoDaddy's @Afternic team for building a brand and platform that end users trust enough to spend that much on https://t.co/CJ4Djyo83h without blinking. Or, maybe it was an Agentic AI agent that cannot blink at all? 🤷♂️
#domainnames #agenticai #agenticintelligence #agentic #ai #afternic
Skip outbounding. Nobody wants spam when they are not in the market for something. The email is likely immediately deleted like most unsolicited email. Just BIN price the domain to sell on an Afternic landing page and move on to buying more domains. When a prospective buyer enters the domain market to buy a domain matching yours, they’ll hit the BIN button. 👍🏻
@IRHologram@WallStreetApes Return to a gold standard that prevents politicians in Washington DC from printing / creating trillions of new U.S. Dollars out of thin air (backed by nothing) which leads to a loss of purchasing power and higher prices across the US economy.
@cultra She assumes that the counterparty will continue to exist over her lifetime and will be there, solvent, to make the payments well into the future. That counterparty could file bankruptcy and the (highly inflated away) payments would stop.