Not on the same scale as AI, but my first ever AirBnB host still owns harley.com. He made his money writing "The Yellow Pages of the Internet" physical books and had turned down numerous lucrative offers from Harley Davidson.
Really fascinating and quirky guy as you can probably infer from the site.
Artificial Insemination is a massive global industrial SaaS (Sperm as as Service), one of the few sectors that can literally make its customers' clients come and deliver!
https://milk.com/value/
Also the server header is "lactoserv"
The FAQ is super informative!
https://milk.com/faq/
I miss the Grate book of MOO lore from Usenet
Is it allowed to lol on HN?
No, you can only go low: "MOO!"
You are welcome to lol silently.
Nah
Which is a real server, no less!
https://github.com/danfuzz/lactoserv
purple.com had a similar page for years, and eventually the mattress company rolled up with a dumptruck load of cash
He used to (maybe still does) have a page where he talked about turning down millions of dollars for it.
See the link above. He’s willing to part with it for 10 million
Almost as cool as owning ai.com!!
Buying AI.com for an AI company just shows they have more money than imagination. Many such cases during the dot-com era (pets.com, mp3.com).
The real flex would be for AI.com to have nothing to do with AI whatsoever.
Not on the same scale as AI, but my first ever AirBnB host still owns harley.com. He made his money writing "The Yellow Pages of the Internet" physical books and had turned down numerous lucrative offers from Harley Davidson.
Really fascinating and quirky guy as you can probably infer from the site.
Similarly, the guy who owned nissan.com never sold out and continues to spite Nissan Motors even in death.
https://nissan.com/
You've got to actually use a trademark-adjacent domain in good faith though, otherwise you might get the rug pulled from under you.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a69634055/75-million-dolla...
Artificial Insemination is a massive global industrial SaaS (Sperm as as Service), one of the few sectors that can literally make its customers' clients come and deliver!
> The real flex would be for AI.com to have nothing to do with AI whatsoever
Apple Intelligence?
Apple Inc. was right there man.
Talk about missing the low hanging fruit!
;)
How do you feel about x.com?
Never heard of it. Do you mean twitter.com?
In an incredible coincidence, I just yesterday listened to a podcast episode that discussed milk.com.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5526903/domain-name-val...