.ai Domain

Search for the name, choose a registration term of at least two years and complete the order; no documents or Anguilla address are needed. If the .ai name you want is free on the domain search page, add it to your cart, pick the term and pay. If it is taken, try a different spelling or .com.ai. Once registration completes, you can point the name at your site from the DNS panel and switch on free WHOIS privacy.

No. Registration carries no residency, incorporation or local contact requirement; an island resident and a company based abroad can both register in their own name. No documents are requested during registration either. In practice this means the process runs exactly as it would for any international extension, and the address is ready to use once registration completes.

The Government of Anguilla manages .ai as its registry, through nic.ai, and Identity Digital operates the registry's technical platform. The extension entered the DNS root zone as Anguilla's country code domain on 16 February 1995. You do not deal with the registry yourself: you register a .ai name through a registrar such as Atak Domain, and the registry's rules, including the two-year minimum term, apply whichever registrar you choose.

Because the .ai registry sets a two-year minimum: .ai names are registered and renewed in terms of at least two years, never for a single year. That is why checkout offers no one-year option. The upside is practical: your renewal calendar becomes less crowded, and the risk of letting the name lapse unnoticed goes down.

Yes. Google Search Central lists .ai among the country-code extensions it handles like generic domains (gccTLDs), so a .ai site is not tied to Anguilla in search results. Whichever countries and languages your AI product serves, Google works that out from your content's language and your hreflang annotations. One .ai address can therefore serve users in several markets at once.

Yes, if your startup builds an AI product: .ai signals your field in the address itself. The rules impose no business-field requirement, so any startup can register one, but visitors who see .ai usually expect something connected to artificial intelligence. Before you choose, factor in the two-year minimum term and check whether your short name is still free on the domain search page.

Not if privacy is switched on. The .ai registry's own FAQ (nic.ai) states that registrants may keep their registration data private through a privacy or proxy service, and Atak Domain offers free WHOIS privacy on .ai. You can see what a lookup returns for any name on the whois search page.

To transfer a .ai domain, get the authorisation (auth) code from your current provider, make sure the name is not locked against transfer, and start the request on the domain transfer page. Your website and email keep working throughout, and the registration time you have left is preserved. Avoid starting a transfer when the name is very close to expiry, because it may not finish in time.

Both belong to the same country extension; the difference is the level. A .ai name is registered directly at the second level and is shorter, while .com.ai sits one level down and foregrounds commercial identity. If brevity and recall matter most, .ai is the better fit. If the name you want is already taken on .ai, .com.ai is a practical way to keep the same wording.