There are already 420,000 .AI domains with 70,000 added in the first quarter!

Since 2023, due to the skyrocketing popularity of AI language models, everything related to AI has been gaining more and more attention. Among them, one of the hottest trends is .ai domain names. In recent times, the number of registered .ai domain names has been steadily increasing.

Recently, the domain name registry authority for .ai domains released the latest domain management figures. The registry revealed that as of now, there are 425,060 registered .ai domain names. Here is the change in this number over time:

July 2, 2018: 48,272 domain names in total

January 2, 2019: 62,183 domain names in total

2020: 85,596 domain names in total

July 1, 2021: 123,651 domain names in total

April 5, 2022: 138,022 domain names in total

July 20, 2022: 143,737 domain names in total

June 14, 2023: 248,609 domain names in total

September 26, 2023: 306,861 domain names in total

December 20, 2023: 353,928 domain names in total

April 12, 2024: 425,060 domain names in total

Looking back over the past 24 months, the .ai domain has doubled in size.

.ai is the country code for Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory located in the Eastern Caribbean with a population of approximately 15,000. As AI companies adopt this domain name, it is becoming increasingly popular. The wave of .ai domain names shows no sign of slowing down.