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.

Every morning, I have a routine for finding domain names I want to bid on, backorder, or buy. I usually spend a couple of hours reviewing lists from tools like Dropping.pro and ExpiredDomains.net. The filters I have set eliminate a big chunk of domain names that are coming up for auction, and I manually review those that remain.

Many domain names that have commercial value and enough margin are quickly obvious. I think most domain investors identify those very quickly, and the number of backorders and bidders show this to be true. The best names obviously get the most auction interest.

Rick Schwartz shared a list of domain names he acquired in 2025, and I thought I would do the same.

I acquired / registered more than 600 domain names last year. I am fairly certain I hand registered more domain names during the year than in any prior year. Some of those were similar to names I previously sold and others were more trend-associated.

The largest percentage of acquisitions I made were .com domain names. I would guess that more than 90% were .com. I also bought multiple .AI, .CO, .IO, and .XYZ domain names. There are others – like a single .App, .TV, and .VC domain name, but I don’t think I bought domain names in any other extensions.

I would consider the domain names below to be my top 10 acquisitions of 2025 (not including names that were already sold). It is not a list of the most expensive domain names I acquired, but it is in alphabetical order. I invite you to share your top domain name acquisitions if you would like.

As I do every morning, I was looking through a list of pending delete domain names on the first day of the year. I found a two word health .com domain name that caught my eye and backordered it at DropCatch.com. With a $59 bid, I was the only bidder and made my first purchase of the year.

Unfortunately, it was a typo. A rookie mistake. Not off to a good start on the domain name acquisition front.

The domain names I focus on acquiring privately aren’t usually for sale. To me, a great domain name that isn’t listed for sale and hasn’t been marketed has the greatest chance of reselling profitably.

There are many reasons for why a domain name may no longer be used but isn’t offered for sale. The registrant may not know about the domain name aftermarket. Selling an unused domain name is a very low priority for the owner. There may be no catalyst for a domain name sale. Nobody at the company may be responsible for selling an asset like a domain name. The domain name may have been bought at a low cost many years ago, and there is just a small holding cost that is insignificant.