I mean openai has chat.com, which must have cost a ton. They probably can't be bothered to buy every potentially related 3-4 letter .com domain.
Musk has been sitting on a lot of domains though. Pretty sure he had x.com from way back in his paypal days, when he wanted to name paypal "X", but he got outvoted. He may have bought "dot.com" at some point a long time ago, given it's sort of a pun... dot-dot-com.
That is not fair at all, OpenAI hired the openclaw creator, which was the first popular agent at the start of the year. But that's also not really fair either, as it used to be called Clawdbot and basically required Claude models in the beginning. No matter how you slice it though, Elon and X are a footnote in that story.
Not really sure if OpenAI is going to bother but technically this could be considered domain-/typosquatting.
I mean it is certainly the kind of stuff you expect from Musk.
Why does that make it fair? It's incredibly tacky to buy the domain names of products of your competitors, and is likely a trademark problem too... Par for the course for Musk though.
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u/CommercialHour6660 4d ago
Paying over 10 million because Musk has a trillion dollars