AI is booming, but will superintelligence inventory age well?

Public sales charts in 2025 and 2026 still show strong prints for AI-themed assets: AgenticIntelligence.com at $150K, Vegas.ai near $70K, and historic seven-figure tiers for names like Bot.ai in prior cycles. Yet in Domainer Den WhatsApp threads we hear a split story. Some members are doubling down on .ai hand-regs tied to "agentic" and "superintelligence" vocabulary. Others are trimming renewal lists and redirecting capital back to .com upgrades they can explain to a CFO.

Our read

We think hype-term inventory behaves like NFT-era keyword spikes: intense for twelve to twenty-four months, painful on renewals when the phrase ages out of pitch decks. Superintelligence and agentic buzzwords may not sustain multi-year hold value unless the asset is truly generic (AI.com is not a comp for your twelve-letter hand-reg).

Compare three numeric anchors from recent coverage: AI.com at a reported $70M (strategic buyer), AgenticIntelligence.com at $150K (descriptive .com), and mid-market .ai city or vertical names in the five-figure band. The spread is not noise. It is two different buyer pools.

What we hear from members

• Funded startups still buy .ai for launch marketing, but many plan a .com upgrade after Series A.
• Investors who held 2021 metaverse keywords learned that renewal math kills undifferentiated portfolios.
• DropCatch and GoDaddy closeout lanes still favor .com for liquidity when you need to exit fast.

Practical stance

We are not anti-.ai. We are anti treating every AI adjective as permanent demand. Keep a defined budget, run NameBio comps on the exact string, and ask whether the term will read dated in 2028. If the answer is yes, treat the reg as a flip with a hard renewal cap, not a generational hold.