Congratulations 👏🎉

AIApp.dev is a five-letter, two-keyword name on the developer-first .dev extension — exactly where AI app builders, SDKs, no-code AI platforms, and dev tooling startups want to live. Generic enough to own a category, short enough to say out loud.

Same will happen to .si

AIApp.dev Blasting.ai owlPay.si daypay.si

No sale from outbound yet

You will get 6 fig, its strong name. I have: owlpay.si daypay.si

Domaining has reinvented itself 7 times in 40 years. Every time the rules changed, the money moved somewhere new. Here’s where it lived in each era, and where it’s going next 🧵 Identity → Scarcity → Law → Parking → SEO → →Brandables → AI identity→?

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The loudest domain extension isn’t the only one worth watching. 👀 While .ai dominates the conversation, Register .si reports an increase in new .si registrations. Registration growth isn’t proof of resale demand—but it’s a reason to look closer. Which ccTLD deserves more attention?

Full story, with sources → tldpulse.com/evolution

Era 7 · 2021–today · Category signals .ai went from 144k to 354k registrations in a year, ~20 % of Anguilla's revenue. The game is no longer "who registered first". It's "who is right about the scarce name a future buyer can't replace".

Era 5–6 · 2008–2020 · Intent & brands ICANN killed domain tasting (−99.7 % grace-period deletes). Google's EMD update ended the thin-site shortcut. 1,930 new-gTLD applications. Then Voice.com: $30M cash, 2019.

Era 4 · 2000–2008 · Cash flow Parking, PPC, Sedo, Afternic, escrow, drop-catching. A domain could earn while it waited for an end user. "Register and wait" became an industry.

Era 3 · 1998–2001 · Rules 29 Nov 1999, same day: Business.com sells for $7.5M, and the ACPA becomes US law. One date split the market in two: legitimate aftermarket vs bad-faith trademark targeting. ICANN + UDRP drew the line.

Era 2 · 1995–1998 · Scarcity Paid registration + the commercial web = finite inventory. Generic words, industry terms, future-demand names. And the riskier bets on other people's trademarks that defined "cybersquatting".

Era 1 · 1985–1994 · Identity Symbolics.com, 15 March 1985. The first .com. Domains were infrastructure, not assets. The opportunity existed before anyone understood it was one.

Domaining didn't start with speculators. It started with six .com names in 1985 — all owned by computer, network and defense organizations. 40 years later, one name sold for $30M and a country code became an AI stock. The evolution of domaining, in seven eras 🧵