OpenAI acquired Chat.com
OpenAI bought Chat.com, adding to its collection of high-profile domain names.
As of this morning, Chat.com now redirects to OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the acquisition via email.
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Hmm wonder what they plan to do with that domain?
It will be the website for ChatGPT is my guess and that will be the basis for their platform.
Chat.com is one of the older domains on the web, having been registered in September 1996. Last year, it was reported that HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah acquired Chat.com for $15.5 million, making it one of the top two all-time publicly reported domain sales.
Shah announced last March that he’d sold Chat.com to an unnamed buyer.
The domain name doesn’t appear to have changed hands since it sold last year, indicating that OpenAI isn’t hosting ChatGPT on Chat.com — so this probably doesn’t represent a brand change.
OpenAI declined to say how much it paid for Chat.com.