One of Australia and New Zealand’s biggest domain and hosting providers, Crazy Domains, is the next in line to add generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to its website builder.
Called the AI Website Builder, this new feature is designed to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) take their first steps into website building, making it less intimidating. The company hopes this will help position it amongst some of the best small business website builders on the market.
For something so fundamental to the Internet, the domain name industry contains a lot of surprises. Some of them are good – like the way .nz and .au registrations help fund groups that advocate for an open and free global internet. But then some surprises aren’t so great, as anyone who has tried to register a “premium domain” has found out.
Premium pricing can get very serious. The few remaining two-letter
.codomains, for example, are listed for US$150,000.
This article explains where premium prices come from (spoiler alert: not us!), why they spring up so late in the registration process, and what happens in the background while you decide whether the extra cost is worth it.
Every top-level domain (TLD) has a wholesaler, or registry, that…