It's unclear exactly what OpenAI paid for the domain, but it sounds like a lot. In a LinkedIn post, its previous owner Dharmesh Shah, who bought the domain for $15.5 million in 2023, revealed only that he got a lot more than what he had originally purchased it for.

As Shah put it in a tweet responding to Altman's unceremonious announcement, the new owner of the domain is "exactly who you'd think."