I want to register an .ai domain but would love to hear recommendations first since it’s a bit pricy! Any personal experience from folks here? Thanks!
ETA: are there any gotchas in transferring this type of domain later to say AWS Route53?
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I used https://www.marcaria.com/ws/en/domains/international-domain-registration to register a .ai domain - they seem the cheapest, and it was drama free.
There’s a place to delegate DNS after registering so yes Route53 should be fine.
I just used the official NIC: https://whois.ai/cgi-bin/main.py . Worked fine. You can set the NS records to point wherever you like - I haven’t used Route53, but I assume it should work with any name server.
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Not .ai, but if you use Namecheap you can get 5 years for $6 for certain domains. You can even get a total of 10 years for $12 by adding 5 more years the day after you make the purchase. (It won’t let you do that on the same day you register the domain.)
All other registries I’ve found will charge $10/year after the first year.
https://www.namecheap.com/promos/cheapest-tld-business-finance-domain-name-48cents.aspx
.accountant
.bid
.cricket
.date
.download
.faith
.loan
.men
.party
.racing
.review
.science
.stream
.trade
.we
.win
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Not sure if this helps but if a .com works, I got a .com from Namecheap for 2 years at 30USD.
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i checked this option but seems like they don’t register new users anymore and delegated the domain registration to resellers…
yes, this is what i was looking at - after reading some horror stories about euroDNS 