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OpenAI's acquisition of Chat.com is strategic in many ways as they push to make their hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT accessible to more people across the world. Recently, OpenAI also launched SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine.
Published: November 9, 2024 4:49 PM IST By OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT have acquired Chat.com, one of the oldest domain names in the world, from HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah, for a whopping $15 million (around Rs 126 crore). Earlier in March, Dharmesh Shah had revealed that he had sold the Chat.
com domain name, but the new owner’s name was not disclosed at the time. — Sam Altman (@sama) Why Chat.com fetched such a hefty price? Apart from being one of the oldest domain names since internet started becoming more popular amongst common people, Chat.
com is also what is known in internet terminology a “vanity domain”. According to available information, Chat.com was registered in September 1996, and Dharmesh Shah had acquired the domain last year for 15.
5 million dollars. In a recent post on X, Shah revealed the ‘secret acquirer’ of the Chat.com domain, revealing that he had previously bought it for an “8 figure sum”.
“Secret acquirer of $15+ million domain chat .com revealed and it’s exactly who you’d think. For those of you that have been following me for a while, you may recall that I announced earlier this year that I had acquired the domain chat .
com for an “8 figure sum” (which was later reported as being $15.5M). I also shared that I had sold the domain to an undisclosed buyer.
I was not at liberty to share who the acquirer was (I was going to leave that to them, when they were ready). Well, in a 8 character tweet (talk about brevity), Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI revealed that they were the buyer,” he wrote. BREAKING NEWS: Secret acquirer of $15+ million domain chat .
com revealed and it’s exactly who you’d think. For those of you that have been following me for a while, you may recall that I announced earlier this year that I had acquired the domain chat .com for an “8 figure sum”.
.. — dharmesh (@dharmesh) Why OpenAI acquired Chat.
com domain? OpenAI’s acquisition of Chat.com is strategic in many ways as they push to make their hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT accessible to more people across the world. Recently, OpenAI also launched SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine that combines traditional search engine features with generative pretrained transformers to generate responses, including citations to external websites Chat.
com now redirects to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. What are vanity domains and why are they expensive? Vanity domains are highly valued because they are usually short, easy to pronounce, and easy to memorise. These domain names are usually a common term which makes it easy for internet users to remember the domain name.
Some popular examples are friend.com, chat.com and shop.
com. Earlier, AI startup, Friend, acquired the friend.com domain for $1.
8 million, reflecting the surging popularity of vanity domain names, especially since rise of AI chatbots. For breaking news and live news updates, like us on or follow us on and . Read more on Latest on .
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