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Ask.com hits the market as Jeeves breathes his last

Kevin Murphy, May 15, 2026, Domain Sales

Some are saying it could be one of the most expensive domain sales ever.

The killer name ask.com is currently for sale, after InterActiveCorp closed down Ask Jeeves, the once-pioneering search engine, at the start of May.

According to broker Andrew Miller of ATM Holdings, he’s partnered with fellow broker Larry Fischer to market the domain, which he said is “one of the most valuable domains ever to come to market”.

For 20 years, the domain was used as the successor to askjeeves.com, the original character-based natural-language search engine that, with hindsight, looks in many ways like a conceptual precursor to AI chatbots like ChatGPT.

Ask Jeeves was one of the many search engines to come out of the mid-to-late 1990s to have their breakfast, lunch and dinner voraciously consumed by Google in the noughties. It plodded on regardless, before closing down for good two weeks ago.

ATM Holdings has brokered some of the biggest category-killer .com sales of all time, including ai.com, which sold a year ago for $70 million, and club.com, which sold last month for $10 million.