ChatGPT Bought The ‘Chat.Com’ Domain By Paying More Than 2 Billion OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a URL (chat.com) on social network X on Wednesday.
Earlier this domain was owned by Hubspot founder Dharmesh Shah. At the beginning of 2023, Shah bought this domain for 155 million dollars (2 billion 847 million rupees according to today’s exchange rate).
He mentioned this in a recent X post.
Now, reposting Altman’s post, Shah has revealed that he sold the chat dotcom domain to OpenEye. He has also written the reason why he spent so much to buy the domain.
“I always thought that chat-based software was going to be the next big thing. This is why I bought the domain,” he wrote on LinkedIn.
Now, Shah has taken a few per cent of OpenEye shares in exchange for the proceeds from the sale of the chat.com domain, which is said to be more than the value of the domains he bought.
With this, you can now run ChatGPT from chat.com.
This is not the first time that a company has bought a domain from someone. The practice of buying and selling domains has been going on since the beginning of the Internet. Just a few months ago, an AI startup called ‘Friend’ spent 1.8 million dollars to buy the friend.com domain after raising an investment of 2.5 million dollars.
