OpenAI花费千万美元购买了这个域名

财大气粗的OpenAI花费千万美元，就为了购买一个域名？！

事情的起因是这样的。

11月6日，OpenAI的CEO Sam Altman在社交媒体X发帖，帖子内容只有一个 chat.com 域名链接。该域名现已指向ChatGPT网站首页。

紧接着几小时后，科技圈另一位大佬达梅什·沙阿（Dharmesh Shah）回应了Sam Altman的帖子，证实 chat.com 这个他曾经以1550万美元购入的域名确实是被网友们猜测的那个人（指Sam Altman）买走的。

达梅什·沙阿（Dharmesh Shah），知名企业家、投资人，HubSpot的联合创始人兼CTO。Dharmesh与Brian Halligan于2006年共同创立了HubSpot，一个营销、销售和客户服务平台。HubSpot的“入站营销”（Inbound Marketing）理念打破了传统的营销模式，通过提供优质内容来吸引潜在客户，而非单纯依赖广告，这一理念迅速成为SaaS行业的标杆。作为CTO，Dharmesh带领技术团队将HubSpot从一个初创公司发展为市值数十亿美元的上市公司，并于2014年在纽约证券交易所成功上市。

在Dharmesh的小作文中，他提到确实购买了 chat.com 域名，并在今年早些时候宣布交易金额为“八位数”，后来媒体披露该金额为1550万美元。他还提到，自己已将该域名出售给一个未公开的买家，但当时并未透露具体身份。

关于为什么要出售这个域名，Dharmesh在帖子中提到，他对OpenAI这个平台、开发者体验和公司文化一直抱有极大的喜爱，并且认为OpenAI是 chat.com 这一域名的理想归属。此外，Dharmesh和Sam Altman相识已有十多年，这份友情也是他考虑卖出域名的一个因素。Dharmesh还提到自己不希望从朋友身上牟利，这一表述表明他并非出于盈利目的来完成这笔交易。Dharmesh提到自己一直希望拥有OpenAI的股份，近期也成为了OpenAI的投资者。基于这点，推测这笔交易可能包含部分以股份支付的形式，使他在支持OpenAI发展的同时获得长期的投资机会。

chat.com 收购价格

不论是Sam Altman，还是Dharmesh Shah都没有明确表示 chat.com 这个域名的收购价格。但Dharmesh在他发的小作文中附上了一条提示词，里面罗列了一些关于收购价格的重要信息（后附完整提示词）。

将提示词投喂给ChatGPT，能得到下面这个答案。ChatGPT根据Dharmesh给出的相关信息，推测收购价格可能在 2000万-2500万 美元之间，其中收购价的 50-75% 以OpenAI股份的形式支付。

ChatGPT域名

梳理一下目前指向ChatGPT的域名。

chatgpt.com

ChatGPT当前的主域名。

chat.openai.com

被 chatgpt.com 替换掉的一个二级域名。

chat.com

本次收购的新域名。

ai.com

该域名目前也是指向ChatGPT，虽然OpenAI并未公布。

小作文全文

在此附上Dharmesh的小作文全文。

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.

I know many are curious about the sale price price. So, here's a prompt that GPT o1 does a really good job of reasoning through.

--- PROMPT BEGINS HERE ---

ROLE: You are a smart, curious person on the Internet.

CONTEXT: You have been given the following facts:

Dharmesh buys chat .com for $15.5M

He bought it for a project. He doesn't usually sell domains.

When he does sell a domain, it's almost never at a loss.

OpenAI was the perfect home for this domain, do he decided to sell it.

He's known Sam for over a decade since before OpenAI

Dharmesh doesn't like profiting off of people he considers friends (and also doesn't like referring to himself in the third person)

He has repeatedly declared his love for OpenAI: The platform, the developer experience and the company.

He's always wanted to own OpenAI shares.

He made a non-humble brag earlier this year that he's now an investor in OpenAI.

He doesn't need the cash from a domain sale, he's doing OK.

How much do you think he sold the chat .com domain for?

What percent of that was in shares of OpenAI?

Provide an approximate range and show reasoning.

--- PROMPT ENDS HERE ---

结语

自此，ChatGPT的打开方式又多了一种。