Use cases / Best TLDs for AI Products
Best TLDs for AI Products
Our pick
For an AI product, .ai is the answer — it's how the category names itself now, availability is far better than .com, and ~$80/yr (two-year minimum) is trivial against the positioning. The only stronger option is a clean, affordable .com; if that's taken or five-figure, don't pay ransom for it when .ai is right there.This is the easiest recommendation on this site — one TLD owns the category. The interesting question is what to do when your name is taken there.
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The unambiguous answer. name.ai is how AI products are named now; anything else requires explanation. Two-year minimums and ~$80/yr are the cost of category-perfect branding.
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The grown-up alternative — openai.com, anthropic.com. If you can own the clean .com, you don't need the category costume.
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For AI developer tools specifically (SDKs, model APIs), .dev speaks to the actual buyer.
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For consumer AI apps where the product is the app itself.
Skip these
.tech — generic-tech energy when the specific signal (.ai) exists.
Common questions
Should an AI startup use .ai or .com?
Use the clean .com if you can get it cheaply — it carries the broadest trust. If it's taken or costs five figures, .ai is the correct choice for an AI-native product: it signals the category instantly and good names are still available. .ai requires a two-year minimum registration.
What does .ai cost?
.ai typically runs about $80–160/yr with a two-year minimum. It's a real country-code TLD (run by the Government of Anguilla) and, unlike .io, it publishes RDAP, so availability checks on .ai are more reliable.