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LLL.ai: the run to zero

In September 2025 there were still 1,424 three-letter .ai domains that nobody had registered. We put them on a list and rechecked it every six hours, dropping each name the moment it was taken. By the end of August 2026 the list was empty. This page replays the whole draw-down.

1,424free on 13 Sep 2025
0free since 30 Aug 2026
351days from first check to the last name
4.1names taken per day, average

Names still available, by day

free namestaken that day21 Jan to 9 Mar interpolated

How it went

Roughly half the supply went in the first four months. The first week alone took over 200 names, most of them in one burst on 21 September.

Then our checker stopped running for 47 days, from 21 January to 9 March 2026. The 314 names taken during that outage only became visible when it came back, so the chart draws that stretch as a straight dashed descent and spreads those names evenly across it.

From March the pace held near four names a day. In August the remainder was swept: the last 47 names went inside eighteen hours on 30 August, most of them created within the same second at a single registrar. Someone bought the tail in one go.

What was left at the end were the hardest combinations. Across the final 200 names taken, j, q and z were by far the most common letters.

Our own rounds

We registered 96 of these names ourselves, 62 of them while the list was being tracked: 1 on 19 Sep 2025, 40 on 21 Sep 2025, 6 on 6 Oct 2025, 15 on 17 Jul 2026. The rest were picked up before the tracking started. They are for sale on our portfolio page.

Names taken per month

MonthTaken
Sep 2025 (from the 13th)216
Oct 2025121
Nov 202591
Dec 202576
Jan 2026 (to the 21st)55
21 Jan to 9 Mar, checker offline314
Mar 2026 (from the 9th)81
Apr 2026118
May 2026113
Jun 202677
Jul 202631
Aug 2026131

The last thirty to go

vkq.ai vwj.ai vzq.ai wjv.ai wkq.ai wvj.ai wzv.ai yfq.ai ypq.ai ypz.ai yrq.ai yvj.ai yvq.ai ywj.ai zbq.ai jfq.ai jgq.ai kqh.ai nkq.ai nqj.ai qgz.ai qjb.ai qjh.ai rqj.ai tqj.ai ujq.ai uqj.ai ygj.ai yqj.ai zjv.ai

Method: the list started from every three-letter .ai name that showed as unregistered on 13 Sep 2025. Every six hours each remaining name was checked against registrar availability data, and a name left the list the first time it came back as registered. Names taken while the checker was offline are shown spread evenly across the offline window, and the curve there is interpolated. Figures are from our own log and may differ slightly from registry totals.