WEST PALM BEACH, FL - For years, debates about domain value have largely revolved around traffic mechanics - rankings, keywords, backlinks, and click-through rates. But artificial intelligence is quietly changing the foundation beneath all of that. What’s emerging now isn’t just a new search interface, but a fundamentally different way digital property is evaluated, referenced, and trusted. Recently, two independent articles - published on entirely different platforms and … [Read more...]
AI Search May Be Biggest Shift in Domain Industry Since Fall of Exact-Match Boom
WEST PALM BEACH, FL - For more than two decades, the domain-name market has largely moved in step with Google’s search systems. Investors based valuations on keyword demand, search volume, and the longstanding assumption that visibility in Google ultimately dictated what made a digital asset valuable. But the rapid rise of AI-driven “answer engines” - including ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Claude (just saw first referral from it today), and others is creating a new reality. … [Read more...]