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Buy an AI word

The most contested group on the board. Several funded companies want each of these, and exactly one of them can end up holding it.

22 words in this category0 already takenreserves from $25

This is the most contested group on the board, and the reason is structural: the AI tooling market added more companies in three years than most categories manage in twenty, and almost none of them can have the name they want. Every good .com went in 2023, every good .ai went in 2024, and what is left is a four-word compound nobody says out loud correctly on the first try.

A word here is the cheap version of the thing those companies are actually buying when they pay five figures for a domain: a short, generic term that is theirs in public. It does not come with the domain and it is not pretending to. What it comes with is the word, its page, a URL you can say from a stage, and a public record that you hold it.

Reserves in this group are the highest on the board because the fight is real. That is also the argument for buying one: a word nobody else wanted is a word nobody is looking at.

Why you would want one

You shipped an agent framework, an inference router or an eval platform this year, and you spell the name out every time you say it. One of these is the shortest way to stop doing that.

What buying one costs

Every word carries a reserve, the price under which it does not sell — the lowest in this category is $25, and bidding opens well below it. Each later bid has to clear the current one by at least $5 or 10%, whichever is larger, and a bid in the last minutes pushes the close back. Whoever is highest when it ends owns the word permanently — there is nothing to renew, and no way for anyone to take it afterwards.

What you get is the word's page with your name, a line of copy, a logo and one outbound link; a slot on the board; a vanity URL you can say out loud; a live badge for your README; and click counts tagged so the traffic shows up in your own analytics. The full rules.

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