Last year, OpenAI filed a UDRP against the ChatGPT.com domain name. The company had been using Chat.OpenAI.com for its Chat GPT platform. In September, I shared that there appeared to be a settlement in that dispute, and ChatGPT.com transferred to OpenAI. For some time, the domain name forwarded to the subdomain that served as the ChatGPT base.
The company has now migrated its Chat GPT platform to ChatGPT.com:
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. has existed as a business for more than 80 years and is publicly traded under the RS ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange. The company has a market capitalization of more than $19 billion USD. The company just announced a small but important rebrand. It is now known as Reliance.
In an earnings call covered by Investing.com, the company announced the rebrand along with a change to its website domain name. Reliance is now operating on its new brand matching Reliance.com domain name. The company had been operating its website under the RSAC.com acronym domain name.
I have always used LinkedIn to get an idea of how widely a brand is used. Knowing this helps me justify a domain name acquisition cost by understanding how many potential buyers there might be for a particular domain name. I have been using Facebook lately to do the same thing, and it has some advantages.
In order to look at home many businesses there are with a specific brand name, I will look at Facebook “pages” results. I have found more businesses and companies use “pages” rather than standard pages. The results would be similar to LinkedIn companies.
Public.com is an exceptional domain name that had been owned by Anything.com up for many years. At some point between 2018 and 2019, the domain name appears to have been sold for an undisclosed amount of money. The buyer, as it turns out, is a company called Public. That company got its start on the two word, off-brand HelloPublic.com domain name.
Why did Public decide to acquire its brand match Public.com domain name? One might guess it was for enhanced marketability and/or to convey trust with customers and clients. We needn’t guess the reasons any longer. In a response to Greg Isenberg’s tweet about the benefits of acquiring a premium .com domain name, Jannick Malling, Co-founder & Co-CEO of Public, shared his rationale for acquiring Public.com:
