Is registering domains with names similar to a product of a third party a valid investment strategy? Particularly if it is very early in the product lifecycle?
Maybe it was before, but now the entire world knows it well. To change it would be taking an incredibly recognizable name—like Twitter for instance—and then just throwing it away. ChatGPT is forever part of history, and almost everyone recognizes it immediately at this point.
> I don’t know if there was any financial settlement involved in this dispute. Generally speaking, the only incentives I can think of for a respondent to settle a UDRP dispute early is if a payment is made or in order to prevent an adverse UDRP decision. In addition, even if a UDRP panel ruled in favor of the respondent, it could have been a Pyrrhic victory if the complainant opted to escalate this to the courts, where legal fees can add up quickly
It seems the folks at OpenAI were surprised by how popular ChatGPT became. Because they didn't expect it, they didn't do the usual things to protect the "ChatGPT" brand, such as buying the .com domain name.
They also didn't do a very good job of protecting the "CHATGPT" wordmark trademark. Check out all the "live" trademarks there are for "CHATGPT" with the USPTO, and note how most of them don't belong to OpenAI:
Shouldn't the headline be "Person who bought chatgpt.com on godaddy pointed it at an openai IP address" since that's all we know? They could just change it on godaddy to point to geminis IP tomorrow in godaddy dns settings if they wanted, right? How do we know openai is even involved?
I was confused why https://chat.openai.com suddenly redirects to https://chatgpt.com which results in connection refused. Turns out chatgpt.com is in many blocklists (e.g. Pi-Hole) due to it being a potentially unsafe Domain before OpenAI acquiring it. So heads up if you use Pi-Hole / AdGuard etc.!
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it has four syllables
it's hard to pronounce
the last three letters can easily be confused
it looks ugly etc
> I don’t know if there was any financial settlement involved in this dispute. Generally speaking, the only incentives I can think of for a respondent to settle a UDRP dispute early is if a payment is made or in order to prevent an adverse UDRP decision. In addition, even if a UDRP panel ruled in favor of the respondent, it could have been a Pyrrhic victory if the complainant opted to escalate this to the courts, where legal fees can add up quickly
https://domaininvesting.com/openai-secures-chatgpt-com/
They also didn't do a very good job of protecting the "CHATGPT" wordmark trademark. Check out all the "live" trademarks there are for "CHATGPT" with the USPTO, and note how most of them don't belong to OpenAI:
https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-information
Edit: It seems there's no way to link to the search results, but you can do a new search for CHATGPT easily enough.
Why does ai.com now point to Google Gemini?
Who really owns ai.com? Or does OpenAI or x.ai still own the domain and just redirects it to other places?
Also, others commented this link: https://domaininvesting.com/openai-secures-chatgpt-com