The AI-Era Domain Intelligence Layer

Research that makes
the portfolio
sell itself.

Original comp analysis. Thesis-driven naming intelligence. A curated 600+ domain inventory that gets referenced — not parked.

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$70M AI.com — largest domain sale ever (Feb 2026)
$22M+ .ai sales reported at NameBio in 2025
90.6% YoY growth in .ai domain sales volume
8x Average .ai price appreciation 2022 → 2025

The domain aftermarket has a research gap. We fill it.

Most domain investors do one of two things — park and pray, or cold outreach spam. Both are broken. The right strategy is to earn attention first, then convert.

NameIndex publishes original research on AI-era domain sales, naming trends, and category emergence. When a funded AI startup researches "agentic domain naming trends" and finds our analysis cited and verifiable — they trust us before we ever reach out. The portfolio sells itself.

This is how the top 1% of domain investors operate. Mike Mann publishes. Frank Schilling built Uniregistry on category authority. Rick Schwartz blogs. The pattern is real. It just hasn't been done specifically for the AI and agentic era yet.

The window is open. "Agentic" peaks around 2027. Launch in mid-2026 and you ride the wave.

Research-led Portfolio-anchored Thesis-driven AI-native

The numbers don't lie. The trend doesn't reverse.

908K+ .ai domains registered — crossed 1M in early 2026. Anguilla now earns $96M/year from the extension.
$135M+ Total .ai sales volume tracked across 3,918 NameBuzz-verified transactions.
$34.6K Average .ai domain sale price. Up dramatically from $3K median just three years ago.
60% Gartner predicts 60% of brands will use agentic AI by 2028 — driving naming demand across every vertical.

600+ domains. One coherent framework.

Organized by thesis cluster — not just alphabetical lists. Each domain has comp-justified pricing and a specific buyer profile. Not a marketplace. A curated catalog backed by the research that positions it.

Agentic Core thesis cluster

AI → Agentic → Autonomous — the naming regime that captures where the market is heading.

QAI Quantum AI crossover

Frontier AI infrastructure naming — the category before the category peaks.

SI Schelling Inference

Naming convergence thesis — when the market collectively agrees on a category keyword.

Claw Vertical keyword capture

High-signal verticals where AI is creating new naming demand — cannabis, health, commerce.

Claw Vertical keyword capture

High-signal verticals where AI is creating new naming demand — cannabis, health, commerce.

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"I'm not selling domains. I'm building the media brand that makes my domains valuable."

Most investors spend their time looking for buyers. We spend our time being the publication buyers already trust. When you read our analysis of a comp sale and verify it yourself, you already believe us when we say we own the domain you need. That's the difference between cold outreach and warm leads.

The publication is the product.
The portfolio is the inventory.
The intelligence is the moat.

NameIndex publishes the research that earns attention, positions the inventory, and converts buyers — without cold-emailing anyone.

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