Domain AI.com value from Rs. 300 to 634 Crore, Extraordinary return on Investment
vrushangshah93@gmail.com A Malaysian man who bought AI.com domain for just Rs. 300 in 1993 has now sold it for a humongous Rs. 634 Crore, an extraordinary return on his investment. Greatest investment in history.
A Malaysian man named Arsyan Ismail sold a web domain name for US$ 70 million (about Rs. 634 crore). The domain name was purchased and paid for in cryptocurrency. The story quickly caught fire online. It is one of the most expensive domain sales ever.
In the year 1993, a 10-year-old boy registered a two-letter dot-com domain (AI.com) using his mother’s credit card for just Rs. 300($100). He made the domain by matching the letters with his initials. He was unaware that the rise of Artificial Intelligence will just change his life forever. It is one of the biggest Return on Investment one can ever do.
AI artificial intelligence captured the market in recent years and exploded into a global industry and AI.com became one of the most valuable web addresses across the world. This sale is reported to be the highest publicly disclosed domain sale till date in history.
In April 2025, this Malaysian man sold the domain AI.com to Crypto.com for $70 million. It is a record sale till date. The Previous record set was in 2010 when CarInsurance.com was sold for $49.7 million. Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, announced today that he is the buyer of AI.com.
Kris Marszalek has big plans with the domain AI.com. It will be an agentic AI platform that will help people with little technical knowledge to put agents to work.
Arsyan Ismail, has been a technopreneur since young age. His journey includes early social networking ventures. In the year 2003, he worked on building Malaysia’s first social networking site, kawanster. In the year 2005, he was a senior programmer at Nuffnang, Malaysia’s pioneering blog advertising platform.
In the year 2013, founded 1337 Tech, a startup developing Apps for businesses. In the year 2017, he became the owner of a high-powered laptop- the Acer Predator 21X. He was also an early supporter of Bitcoin and digital assets.
This transaction shows the rise of AI in global tech and shows the value of strategic domain names. This purchase has stood out to be the most successful story in history and it also shows how a single decision can change your entire life.
Investment always gives handsome return but for that we need to invest at the right place and at the right time and at last patience is needed to get astonishing return.
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