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Meta has acquired the Threads.com orbit name , according toWhois phonograph record of the URLthat were updated on September 24 .
user ondomain - relatedforumspointed out this transferee , and TechCrunch substantiate the Whois records of Threads.com one by one , which list Meta ’s Instagram as the registrant .
TechCrunch reached out to Meta to understand if it plans to move its Threads social web to Threads.com , but the company did n’t offer an immediate answer .
The social networking fellowship had launched it on Threads.net URL because Threads.com was owned by a Sequoia - back Slack alternative inauguration party .
At that meter , the squad communicating startup said that after Meta launched its societal net , a few companies approach them about an acquisition . In June , Shopifyacquired Threads.com for an undisclosed amount .
“ Around the same prison term [ when Threads.com was debate selling the domain ] , a handful of company approach us , wondering if we would be opened to an attainment , ” the society allege in the post on its homepage at the time of announcing the accomplishment . “ When this happened in the past , we would courteously wane . However , this time , thing were different . We were n’t that unrestrained about the clock time it would take to invest in a rebrand , and with mind - warping technological advances now being a trade good , we were worked up about joining a property where we could tinker at graduated table , ” the post explained .
Shopify has yet to answer to a request for gossip .
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Threads.com saw a capitulum in its app downloads around the time whenMeta launched its social web . In an interview with TechCrunch last twelvemonth , Threads.com ’s co - founder and CEORousseau Kazi , who previously worked at Facebook , say Threads is a “ powerful word and an internet - aboriginal condition . ”
More than a year after its launching , Meta ’s Threads has scaled to more than 200 million users .
