Anthropic Appears to Have Acquired Claude.com

A month ago, I noticed the Claude.com domain name transferred from Network Solutions to corporate domain registrar MarkMonitor. The domain name had been registered under Whois privacy, and it is currently registered to DNStination Inc., Mark Monitor’s privacy service. The domain name transfer was brought to my attention with the help of DomainTools’ Registrant Monitor tool.

In my post about the domain name transfer, I mentioned that Anthropic AI chat platform is called Claude. The company uses the Claude.ai domain name for this platform.

https://t.co/8ENNVeXDjj transferred from Network Solutions (Whois privacy) to MarkMonitor (Whois privacy).

FWIW, Anthropic’s AI model brand called Claude uses Claude .ai. That domain name is also registered at MarkMonitor.

Unsure if Claude .com was sold but I will monitor.

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— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) November 21, 2024

For almost a month following the Claude.com domain name transfer, there was a message on the landing page:

“Moving to a new faster, better server. Please come back soon!

Claude”

Within the past day or so, the Claude.com nameservers changed from DomainControl to Cloudflare. In fact, the Cloudflare nameservers appear to be the same for Claude.ai as they are for Claude.com – Isla.ns and Randy.ns. The domain name also began forwarding to Claude.ai (with this tracking redirect url: https://claude.ai/login?returnTo=%2F%3Fredirect%3Dclaude.com). Given this combined with the fact that the domain name is registered at MarkMonitor, I am pretty sure that we can say Anthropic acquired Claude.com.

Notably, some of the largest AI companies have been acquiring their brand matching .com domain names to align with their .ai domain names. OpenAI acquired Chat.com and ChatGPT.com and Perplexity recently acquired Perplexity.com.