2025 in review: how AI changed the domain business
· Summary of an article by Andrew Allemann, Domain Name Wire
A year-end review of AI and domains. .ai now provides around a quarter of Anguilla's government revenue, and the move to Identity Digital gave the extension a stronger platform and more predictable policies.
The .ai aftermarket kept growing in 2025, despite predictions a year earlier that it would collapse. On the other side, AI answers are cutting traffic to content sites, while easier app building could raise demand for names.