Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records of the URL that were updated on September 24.
Users on domain-related forums pointed out this transfer, Whois records shows Threads.com is listed by Meta’s Instagram as the registrant.
The social networking company had launched it on Threads.net URL because Threads.com was owned by a Sequoia-backed Slack alternative startup company.
At that time, the team communication startup said that after Meta launched its social network, a few companies approached them about an acquisition. In June, Shopify acquired Threads.com for an undisclosed amount.
“Around the same time [when Threads.com was considering selling the domain], a handful of companies approached us, wondering if we would be open to an acquisition,” the company said in the post on its homepage at the time of announcing the acquisition. “When this happened in the past, we would politely decline. However, this time, things were different. We weren’t that excited about the time it would take to invest in a rebrand, and with mind-warping technological advances now being a commodity, we were excited about joining a place where we could tinker at scale,” the post explained.