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Domain Daily · 22 October 2026

Daytona.com Sells for $500,000 – And the .si Land Rush Picks Up a New Shape

A .com domain just sold for half a million dollars days after its buyer became a unicorn, and the AI naming scramble around "SI" is now spreading from .si into .inc too.

By Maggi Ferguson

DN.com reported that Daytona.com sold for $500,000, days after Daytona, an AI agent cloud startup, closed a new funding round that the post says made it Croatia's third unicorn. NameBio's sales list for the day puts the same $500,000 figure on Daytona.com, so that's two sources agreeing on the price, not one repeating the other. The company had been running on Daytona.io; DN.com says it's now moved to the .com. I checked the registry record and it still shows a last-change date of 26 February, well before this week, so the public record doesn't confirm when the transfer actually happened. That's not unusual for a deal that closes privately before any registrar record catches up, but it's worth being upfront that the registry doesn't back the timing on its own.

ASI.com changes hands too, and it's not who you'd guess

Elliot Silver reported that ASI.com now redirects to Airspace-Intelligence.com. The domain previously belonged to an unrelated company that also went by the initials ASI. He spotted the registrar change, Cloudflare out and Namecheap in with the Whois now redacted, through domainIQ and DomainTools. In a separate post tied to his domaininvesting.com write-up, Elliot notes that ASI recently closed a Series C at a $3 billion valuation, and that ASI.com now matches that branding as well as carrying an AI-flavoured acronym. Put together, that reads as Airspace Intelligence buying the .com to match its own "ASI" shorthand, not some other company by that name.

On the same day, Ultra Domains said it sold ASI.inc for $90,000, calling out the timing with all the AI-to-superintelligence chatter going around. That's the seller's own number, so take it as firsthand, but remember Ultra Domains has a direct stake in that sale being seen as a good one. They added that DNJournal called it the biggest .inc sale it's tracked, which I haven't independently checked. DomainCX tied the two ASI stories together in one post, but that's one account linking two deals already reported by Elliot and Ultra Domains, not a third source confirming either.

The .si chatter keeps producing actual sales

A NamePros post credited to domainnews lists several fresh .si sales cleared through escrow: Runtime.si for $28,888 via Spaceship, Bankruptcy.si for $10,000 via Spaceship, Devin.si for $7,000 via Atom, and TradeLab.si for $6,500 with the venue not stated. The post notes every listing came from a verified owner and every sale ran through Spaceship SafePay or Escrow.com, though I haven't independently checked that claim myself.

Domain Gang took the other side of the hype in an editorial arguing that this rush is nothing like the 1990s dot-com boom, which is worth reading if you've only seen the sale totals and not the counterargument. On the lighter side, Domain Shane thanked the flood of ".si moonshot listings" for making his own .ai and .com names look cheap by comparison, joking that buyers will take the better extension when it's only 10% pricier. That tracks with what silentg posted on NamePros: the buyer of DeepLogic.ai went $10,000 above what the matching .si is listed at would have cost.

My take: a one-word .inc sale and a handful of four and five-figure .si deals don't make a new TLD class on their own, but three separate sellers independently landing "SI"-branded names in one week is more than noise. Worth watching whether the next tier of buyers pays up for .si outright or just uses it as leverage to negotiate the .com down, the way Domain Shane is describing.

Also on my radar

Would you rather hold a four-figure .si name hoping the superintelligence story keeps running, or sit it out and let someone else take the risk? Let me know in the comments.

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