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by HyprMusic 584 days ago
OpenAI was the anonymous buyer: https://x.com/dharmesh/status/1854307883304792294

Copy & paste for those who can't visit Twitter:

> 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" (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. If you visit the website now, it goes to ChatGPT.