Domain Daily · 7 November 2026

Epidemic.com Sells for $1,000,000 – And Anna.ai Follows at $350,000

Epidemic.com has changed hands for $1,000,000, and the seller himself is behind the number.

By Maggi Ferguson

DN Journal's Ron Jackson reports that Garry Chernoff, a veteran domainer based in Canada, told him about the sale directly. The buyer approached Chernoff with no broker involved, the deal closed through Escrow.com, and the buyer isn't named. NameBio's daily roundup also lists Epidemic.com at $1,000,000, filed as a private sale, and a NamePros write-up repeats it. The seller's own account is the firmest basis a price can have short of a filing, and NameBio's list agrees. The registry record shows Epidemic.com was first registered in 1997.

DN Journal puts the week in context: every one of the top eleven names on its 2026 chart so far reached seven figures or more, while it counts just nine seven-figure sales across all of 2025. With Tokens.com at $5 million and Epidemic.com added, that count rises again.

My take: a one-word dictionary .com with nearly three decades behind it was always going to draw buyers, and what stands out is how many of this year's biggest sales have come out through a seller or a company filing rather than a tracker.

A quieter six-figure sale, told by the seller

Over on X, Metaverse Invest said that Anna.ai had "recently sold for $350K", adding that they rarely post sales publicly. TLDInvestors picked up the same figure and credited Metaverse Invest directly, so that's one claim travelling, not two confirming each other.

Worth noting: Metaverse Invest said back on 2 November that they hold more than 600 .ai domains and move roughly $1 million a year through NameBio, mostly without public posts. That context matters for reading the $350,000 figure, since it comes from a seller with a stake in the number looking good. TLDInvestors' own post names no venue or buyer, and the registry record doesn't say when the deal closed, so there is little to check the price against yet.

Another day, another stack of .ai sales

NameBio's day sheet for 6 November had .ai sitting well above every other extension on average price. Alongside Epidemic.com, the list included DailyHealth.com at $250,000, then Disco.ai at $112,000, SkyDrop.ai at $53,995, DailyBriefing.ai at $30,000, TradeLab.ai at $28,000 and Zendo.ai at $25,000. Most of those went through Afternic or Atom.com, and the registry records for Disco.ai, SkyDrop.ai and TradeLab.ai all show a "transfer period" status this week, which fits recent ownership changes rather than proving the prices themselves.

The .si column kept pace too. DomainCX posted a roundup crediting NameBio with Golden.si at $13,446, Parallax.si at $9,731, Avril.si at $7,829, 77.si at $6,227 and Synergy.si at $5,376, and the same five names and prices show up in NameBio's own day sheet. Five .si sales in one day's data, again.

On top of that, a NamePros poster going by SteveNgo argued that a longevity project tied to Harvard's David Sinclair and Insilico Medicine's Alex Zhavoronkov had launched on LongevityGrok.si, and used it to argue .si is locking in as the "superintelligence" extension. That's one forum poster's framing, not a reported story, so I'd treat the branding claim as speculation rather than confirmation that .si has arrived.

Also on my radar

Rewards.org for $14,000: DomainGang reported the sale through DropCatch's 6 November auction, and the same name and price appear in NameBio's day sheet.
Beanstalk Challenge goes to court over a .si name. Domain Name Wire reports that Beanstalk Challenge LLC, the company behind Rick Schwartz's programme, has sued Orangeful Private Ltd of India and its founder Venky Vijay Reddi. The complaint accuses them of passing off, trademark infringement under common law and cybersquatting, centred on BeanstalkX.com and Beanstalk.si, and asks the court to order both domains handed over. Those are allegations in a filing, not findings. Schwartz plans to hand the keys to his Bentley to a participant at NamesCon next week, and Reddi also plans to attend. DomainGang's follow-up notes that Beanstalk.com itself is not a party.
Tokens.com's seller is named. DN Journal reports that the $5 million sale, first found by George Kirikos in an SEC filing, was by Neighborhood Intelligence Inc., formerly Bed Bath & Beyond. It adds that the company had agreed to buy the name in February on a lease-to-own deal worth just over $2.2 million.
A year-later payoff: Ken Lin noted that the final Lease-to-Own payment on LinkLand.com, which he sold for $80,000 through Afternic a year ago, landed this week.

Does a seller's own account, like Chernoff's on Epidemic.com, carry more weight with you than a tracker's list, and what do you make of a seller posting their own $350,000 for Anna.ai? Let me know in the comments.