While ‘agent’ has been a highly-sought domain term for many years, with artificial intelligence enabled smart agents, the term has taken on a whole new significance.
Several related terms have taken on new interpretations, none more than ‘agentic’. As we will see below, that term has sold a number of times during the last few months.
This article takes a look at what those terms, and others, mean, as well as cover the recent development of AI agents, and look towards the future.
What Is An Agent?
The term ‘agent’ has five distinctive meanings according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, including the traditional “one who is authorized to act for or in place of another.” Real estate, literary, etc. agents follow this definition.
Two of the dictionary definitions apply specifically to the era of AI agents:
- def. (3) “a means or instrument by which a guiding intelligence achieves a result” and
- def. (5) “a computer application designed to automate certain tasks.”
Registrations, Business Use, and Sales of Agent
The exact term ’agent’ is registered in 507 extensions, and a total domain count of almost 285,000according to dotDB.
The search volume is about 368,000 according to dotDB, with CPC values from about $0.50 to just over $5.00. Surprisingly, the ad competition is low.
With so many different types of agents, the term ’agent’ is used in 17,750 active companies and organizations according to OpenCorporates.
I used NameBio to look at sales of the exact term ‘agent’: 13. Somewhat surprisingly, only 5 of these sales are in 4-figure range, and none above that. Here is a NameBio link that will update with any sales following the time this article goes to print.
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News Source:Bob Hawkes，This article does not represent our position.
