OpenAI bought chat.com, which redirects to ChatGPT, in March 2023; HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah reportedly bought the 1996 domain for $15.5M in January 2023
Is this the end of ‘GPT’ era as we know it? Sagar Naresh Bhavsar / Neowin : OpenAI might have spent over $15 million plus some shares to acquire ‘Chat.com’ Rowan Cheung / The Rundown AI : OpenAI acquires $15M+ domain Abhyjith K. Ashokan / Hindustan Times : OpenAI buys new domain chat.com for over $15 million, it redirects to ChatGPT Kylie Robison / The Verge : Did OpenAI just spend more than $10 million on a URL? Will Shanklin / Engadget : OpenAI bought the web domain Chat.com Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : OpenAI Acquires Dharmesh Shah's $15.5M Domain Chat.com: What's Behind The Move? Mohit Pandey / Analytics India Magazine : OpenAI Buys Chat.com Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : OpenAI buys Chat.com and redirects it to ChatGPT X: Sam Altman / @sama : https://chat.com/ Gaut / @0xgaut : just chat. drop the gpt. it's cleaner. [image] Kylie Robison / @kyliebytes : Sam Altman tweeted a simple URL today — https://chat.com/. So, I dug into the URL's previous ownership. Dharmesh Shah, the CTO of HubSpot, purchased it for more than $10 million in early 2023. After 2 months, he sold it for more than he paid. https://www.theverge.com/... Near / @nearcyan : @sama now i understand what you needed the 7 trillion for Avi / @avischiffmann : @sama Nice, probably cost more than $1.8m Rowan Cheung / @rowancheung : I would love to see the numbers behind this domain purchase. @dharmesh previously bought and sold it for $10M+ [image] Sophie / @netcapgirl : openai CFO seeing the domain name expense: [image] Kache / @yacinemtb : @sama wow look at mr money bags over here LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski : If you visit chat.com, you'll now be redirected to ChatGPT. — OpenAI paid millions for the domain name, although the details are murky. … Forums: Hacker News : ChatGPT now on chat.com