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Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M by clickok on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:41PM (#34837748)
Damn. I bought rl.ai when I was a grad student but it's been laying fallow since I can't really blog about the stuff I'm working on right now. How does one go about selling their domain for millions of dollars?
Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M by elil17 on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:45PM (#34837810)
rl.ai is probably not so valuable. Everyone now knows the word "AI," but only specialists know "RL"
Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M by manimino on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:59PM (#34838033)
Which is a bit surprising, given that RL is the most likely path to the scary AI future everyone loves to blog about.
Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M by elil17 on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:38PM (#34838561)
Doesn't surprise me. Maybe you've heard of low temperature heat pumps, but not the refrigerants that enabled that technology. You've certainly heard about solar panels but you probably don't know what metallurgical and manufacturing advances made them cheap enough for many people to buy.

Why should someone learn technical jargon when what there interested in is what effects the technology will have on society?

Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M by pavlov on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:54PM (#34837967)
What’s RL? “Real life” is the only thing that comes to mind.
Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M by profstasiak on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:56PM (#34837990)
reinforcment learning
Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M by pavlov on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:03PM (#34838091)
Ok, thanks.

Short names on these popular country TLDs are probably not as valuable as they might seem.

I used to own a NN.io domain name where NN was a common financial abbreviation. I thought it might be fairly valuable, but I ended up selling at auction for less than $3k. (That was before the crypto boom. Maybe it could have fetched more if I’d waited several years and sold in 2021. It seems like there was a short moment when even relatively crap .xyz domains sold for five figures.)

Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M by rvz on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:02PM (#34838069)
Exactly. That is why it is probably not valuable.
Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M by ilkke on Friday February 17, 2023 @05:38PM (#34841580)
I was betting on 'roguelike'
Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M by marban on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:45PM (#34837819)
Dan, Sedo, Afternic
Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M by hellomyguys on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:08PM (#34838148)
> How does one go about selling their domain for millions of dollars?

You have a domain someone wants to buy for millions of dollars