Whois records for the URL changed on September 24 show that Meta has bought the Threads.com domain name
TechCrunch checked the Whois records of Threads.com and found that Meta’s Instagram is listed as the registrant. Users on domain-related forums had already posted about this move.
TechCrunch asked Meta if it planned to move its Threads social network to Threads.com, but the company didn’t back up immediately.
Because a startup company with Sequoia-backed the development of an alternative to Slack-owned Threads.com, it started there.
At that time, the team communication startup said a few businesses had asked to buy them after Meta launched its social network. Shopify bought Threads.com in June for an unknown sum of money.
A few businesses asked Threads.com if it would be open to an acquisition around the same time it was thinking about selling the domain, the company said in a post on its homepage when it announced the acquisition.
“In the past, when this happened, we would politely say no.” Things were different this time, though. We weren’t excited about the time it would take to rebrand, and since mind-bending technology advances are now commonplace, we were excited to join a place where we could play around on a large scale, the post said.
Shopify hasn’t replied to a request for feedback yet.
Many people downloaded the Threads.com app around the same time that Meta launched its social network. The co-founder and CEO of Threads.com, Rousseau Kazi, who used to work at Facebook, told TechCrunch last year that Threads is a “powerful word and an internet native term.”
Meta’s Threads has grown to more than 200 million users in over a year since it first came out.