- OpenAI has announced the acquisition of the chat.com domain.
- It is the latest in a series of high-profile domain acquisitions being made by the AI startup.
- While no exact figure is mentioned, it is believed that OpenAI paid roughly $15 million for the domain.
If you head to chat.com right now, you will be redirected to ChatGPT.
More specifically the 4o mini version of the generative AI platform as default, with its creator OpenAI confirming that it acquired the domain recently.
It told TechCrunch that it acquired the domain via email, but did not disclose what it paid for the domain.
As the publication points out, OpenAI has been acquiring quite a few high-profile domains of late, with chat.com perhaps being the most significant. To that end, this may soon become the default url that users head to in order to experience the capabilities of ChatGPT for free.
It is also worth pointing out that chat.com has been around for some time, as it was first registered in September 1996.
As for how much it paid for the domain, while OpenAI is remaining mum on the subject for now, HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah reportedly purchased it last year for roughly $15 million. That sale ranks as one of the top two publicly disclosed figures to acquire a domain, which likely means that OpenAI paid something similar or offered Shah favourable terms.
At the time of writing, Shah is remaining equally tight lipped on how much the sale was for.
Either way, OpenAI has a new domain, one of the oldest around, where users can experience the capabilities of ChatGPT.
