The world's most expensive! A 10-year-old Malaysian boy bought the domain "AI.com" for 100 dollars and sold it for 70 million dollars 33 years later. During the Super Bowl game in the U.S. on February 8, the buyer advertised the domain and officially launched the "AI agency" business. Alsyan Ismail, who bought the domain "AI.com" for 100 dollars in 1993. In March this year, Chris Marzalek, the founder of Crypto.com, purchased the AI.com domain for 70 million dollars, setting a record for the most expensive domain transaction in history, with the entire payment made to the seller in cryptocurrency. The previous highest amount for a domain transaction was 49.7 million dollars for CarInsurance.com sold in 2010, followed by VacationRentals.com (35 million dollars in 2007) and Voice.com (30 million dollars in 2019). According to the latest reports, the seller of this domain is Malaysian man Alsyan Ismail, who purchased the domain for 100 dollars using his mother's credit card in 1993 when he was only 10 years old. At that time, his mother was confused about the charge because she did not understand what a domain was and only saw a mysterious deduction on her credit card bill. Ismail stated that his decision to purchase this domain was entirely personal: the letters "AI" happened to match the initials of his name. He did not foresee the rise of artificial intelligence, nor did he make long-term plans. $ETH

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