Google Buys YT.COM Domain Name

Google has recently acquired the premium domain name YT.com. According to whois records, the domain name sold most likely in January, 2015.

According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in January, 1996. Moreover, the domain name came out of Privacy Protection two days ago, on March 30,2015 , revealing Google as the new owner.

Knowing that Facebook acquired the domain name FB.com for $8.5 million, it is possibly that Google also paid a few million dollars for the domain name.

At the time of writing this article, the domain name doesn’t resolve to a website.