Registration, renewal and transfer prices for .ai at the 6 registrars we track, lowest 3-year cost first. Each price shows the date it was last verified. Prices verified between 13 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.
| Registrar | Register | Renew | Transfer | 3 years | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spaceship | $79.98/yr | $79.98/yr | $79.98 | $239.94 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| Porkbun | $82.70/yr | $82.70/yr | $165.09 | $248.10 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| Namecheap | $89.98/yr | $114.98/yr | $99.98 | $319.94 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| Cloudflare | $160.00/yr | $80.00/yr | $80.00 | $320.00 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| OVHcloud | $77.39/yr | $130.79/yr | $143.56 | $338.97 | 13 Sep 2026 (stale) |
| GoDaddy | $104.99/yr | $159.99/yr | $159.99 | $424.97 | 4 Oct 2026 |
None of the 6 registrars we track renews .ai at more than 1.8× its first-year price.
.ai is a country-code top-level domain, delegated in 1995, and IANA records Government of Anguilla as its ccTLD manager, in Anguilla. The registry points registrants at nic.ai for registration services. That delegation record was last updated on 11 Feb 2025; if the registry has changed hands since, IANA is where it shows up first.
Source: IANA Root Zone Database (checked 16 Sep 2026)
3,575 .ai names are among the 1,000,000 most-visited sites on the 15 Sep 2026 Tranco ranking. 41 of them are inside the top ten thousand and 461 inside the top hundred thousand. The highest-ranked .ai sites on that list include claude.ai (#441), perplexity.ai (#686), character.ai (#957) and polybuzz.ai (#1,296).
Source: Tranco list N2PYW, 15 Sep 2026 (checked 16 Sep 2026)
The registry publishes no residency or nexus requirement for .ai; what it does publish is a use rule — a name must not be put to abusive use. Day-to-day it is not run from Anguilla: the official registry operator site for .ai is published by Identity Digital, which handles registrar accreditation, while IANA still records the Government of Anguilla as the ccTLD manager.
Source: NIC.AI FAQ (checked 16 Sep 2026) · NIC.AI, the official .ai registry operator site (checked 16 Sep 2026)
Availability of .ai names is checked against the registry's own RDAP server (rdap.identitydigital.services) and DNS-over-HTTPS. On this site your browser asks that server directly for a first, provisional answer; our server's check confirms it, and only that answer is cached. Premium suspects (such as very short names) and brand-protected labels also get a third signal, Fastly Domain Research, before they are shown as available.
The lowest renewal among the 6 registrars we track is $79.98 a year at Spaceship. The highest is $159.99 at GoDaddy, so the same .ai name costs $80.01 a year more depending on where it sits. Prices verified between 13 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.
Not at the registrars we track: none of the 6 renews .ai at more than 1.8× its first-year price. The 3-year column is registration plus two renewals, so a change would show there.
All six of the registrars in our price table: Spaceship, Porkbun, Namecheap, Cloudflare, OVHcloud and GoDaddy. Each row carries its own verification date; these were verified between 13 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.