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Looks Like OpenAI Acquired GPT.com

Elliot Silver
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It appears that OpenAI has acquired the GPT.com domain name. If you visit GPT.com, you will be forwarded to ChatGPT.com. OpenAI previously acquired Chat.com last year, and that domain name also forwards to the ChatGPT website. GPT is an acronym for Generative Pre-trained Transformer.

GPT.com is now registered to DNStination Inc. at corporate domain registrar, MarkMonitor. DNStination is the MarkMonitor Whois privacy service. This means I can’t conclusively say the domain name is owned by OpenAI, but it would be peculiar for a MarkMonitor client to acquire a domain name like this and forward it to another company’s website. Both Chat.com and OpenAI.com are also registered at MarkMonitor, but neither of those domain names use Whois privacy.

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Check Auction Win Nameservers

Elliot Silver
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I am in the process of transferring some Atom-listed domain names to the Atom.com domain registrar to take advantage of the Atom Edge program. In addition to the names I already transferred, I am starting to transfer domain names at auction-connected registrar accounts I need to consolidate.

In looking at my NameBright account, I searched for Atom nameservers to make this process a bit easier. This helped me identify domain names I have pointing to Atom already. I requested the auth codes and started the transfers.

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Bot.AI Sold for 7 Figures via Sedo

Elliot Silver
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In looking at NameBio this morning, I don’t see any 7 figure publicly reported .AI domain name sales. The largest public sale recorded by Namebio was the $750,000 sale of Wisdom.ai, reported by DNJournal. That is going to change.

According to a post on X by Sedo, the Bot.ai domain name was sold via Sedo for $1.2 million USD. Sedo stated this was a BIN sale, meaning the seller listed the domain name for $1,200,000 and the buyer utilized the buy it now functionality to acquire it:

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AJ Has the Pokémon Card and Anthony has the Domain Name

Elliot Silver
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AJ Scaramucci made the news last week when he spent more than $16 million to acquire a Pokémon card in auction. It’s apparently a rare graded card that was previously owned by Logan Paul. It was the largest amount ever spent on a trading card in an auction, according to Guinness World Records.

While AJ might now own this special Pokémon card, his father, Anthony Scaramucci, owns a fantastic domain name via his SkyBridge Capital investment firm. In fact, about ten years ago, I exchanged some emails with Anthony about domain names.

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Why I Transferred .AI Domain Names to Atom.com

Elliot Silver
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When it comes to domain registrations, price is not the biggest factor for me. Trust, support availability, and ease of use are all more important than the price of domain name registrations, as long as the price is in line with the average. I am not going to transfer or register domain names to save a few dollars if I don’t fully trust the registrar and company behind it.

Over the past couple of years, Atom.com has gained my trust. I have sold more than ten domain names via Atom, and the platform operators quickly respond to any issues and/or feedback to provide a better experience for customers.

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“Billing Failure” Nice Try GoDaddy

Elliot Silver
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A few days ago, I received a somewhat alarming email from GoDaddy. “Billing Failure: Save [Redacted].COM before it’s gone on 2/15/2026.”

The message accomplished its task of grabbing my attention. It wasn’t a billing failure that caused my domain name to expire though. I intentionally turned off the auto-renew functionality on this hand registered domain name.

I don’t think this should be classified as a “billing failure,” but I do think GoDaddy was trying to use an alarming term to get my attention. It annoyed me more than anything else.

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