Crypto.com co-founder and CEO Chris Marszalek has launched a new AI agent platform under the AI.com brand, a domain he reportedly purchased for $70 million.
The new company claims that this transaction is “believed to be the largest domain purchase in history.” There is a possibility that there may have been other big deals which have not been disclosed. Historically, Cars.com has been cited as the most valuable domain name of all time, with financial statements dating back to its acquisition in 2014 showing that the site was listed as having intangible assets worth $872.3 million.
According to a press release, the platform will allow users to generate a private, personal AI agent that operates on the user’s behalf. The company says the AI agent will be able to send messages, create projects, trade stocks, and even update dating profiles.
The company said that all user agents will operate in a dedicated secure environment with data encryption using user-specific keys.
“We are at a fundamental shift in the evolution of AI as we increasingly move beyond basic chat to AI agents that are actually doing work for humans,” Marszalek said in the press release. “Our vision is a decentralized network of billions of agents that self-improve and share these improvements with each other, massively and rapidly expanding agentic capabilities and accelerating the advent of AGI.”
The website’s landing page currently features a countdown clock for Sunday, when the platform is set to officially launch following a Super Bowl ad.
Marszalek is set to serve as CEO for both Crypto.com and AI.com.
The Financial Times, citing the deal’s broker, reported that AI.com was sold for $70 million. In March 2025, GetYourDomain.com announced that the domain was available for sale for a price of $100 million.
Marszalek launched Crypto.com, formerly known as Monaco, in 2016. The company eventually acquired the Crypto.com domain when it was reportedly worth $5 to 10 million. It has since become one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world with over 150 million retail users. Now it appears Marszalek is betting it can do the same in the AI field.
“When we started Crypto.com there were about a thousand different exchanges, and we somehow managed to make it work,” Marszalek told The Financial Times. “We will make it [AI.com] Work it out somehow.”
He further added, “I thought it was quite interesting that one person could own two domains that stand for such important categories.”
He has reportedly already received interest from buyers for the domain, but believes AI.com will help the company build brand awareness and trust with customers.
Cyrpto.com is no stranger to big, flashy marketing schemes. In 2021, it reached a $700 million multi-decade deal to rename Staples Center as “Crypto.com Arena”.
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