Available .ai domain names, and how often they exist

On .ai, the usual trade-off does not appear

Ranking well normally costs you the domain. Not here: over 209 published searches, the strongest five names in a run had a free .ai 88.2% of the time and the weakest five 87.9% — under 1 points apart on 1008 verdicts a side, which is no relationship at all. A good .ai name being available tells you nothing about whether it is any good.

Those two rates are measured among names that already reached a published top twenty, so both sit above the site-wide figure. The comparison between them is the finding; neither is an availability rate on its own.

A free .ai is a domain verdict on the date we checked — not a trademark clearance, and not a social handle.

.ai is Anguilla's country code — a Caribbean island of about fifteen thousand people — and registrations run in two-year terms rather than one, so the first bill covers twice the period you may expect. It carries no residency requirement, and demand from AI companies has made it one of the more expensive extensions at most registrars.