Banned in Nepal saying chat.com porn website bought by ChatGPT

 Banned in Nepal saying chat.com porn website bought by ChatGPT 

It has been found that the domain purchased by ChatGPT maker OpenAI by paying more than two billion is banned in Nepal. OpenAI recently paid 15 million dollars (more than two billion rupees) for the chat dotcom domain found to be on the banned list in Nepal.

Currently, if you search for 'chat.com' from the internet of most of the service providers, it appears that the law of Nepal has banned it.

"As the website you are trying to browse contains content prohibited by Section 121 of the Civil Crimes (Code) Act, 2074 and other prevailing laws, access to such content is prohibited as per the instructions of the Government of Nepal and the regulatory body Nepal Telecommunication Authority," the notice reads. is

Representatives of various mobile and internet service providers have said that chat.com was banned because the list of sites sent by the regulator as 'to be banned'. This website is running uninterrupted through the network of some service providers.

According to the notification of the Telecommunication Authority, Chat.com has been defined as a pornographic site. Under section 121 of the State Crimes (Code) Act, 2074, sub-sections (a), (b), (c) and (d) have mentioned obscene content.

With the aim of reducing the incidents of rape and sexual violence, the then KP Sharma Oli-led government decided to close porn websites in Nepal in 2075.

Vijayakumar Roy, director of the Regulatory Telecommunication Authority, said that he would provide information only after understanding more about the ban on Chat.com. "What happened in this matter, I understand and report," he said.

Chat.com was a video chat website before OpenAI bought it. Different people could talk to strangers on video. After joining the website, four strangers arrived. It is said to have more than 5 million active users at that time.

OpenAI purchased the Chat.com domain with plans to rebrand ChatGPT to Chat. In the beginning, you had to browse chat.openai.com/chat to browse ChatGPT.

Later, the company used the chatgpt.com domain. To make it even shorter, now chat.com is also redirected to chatgpt.com. That is, now when you browse chat dotcom in the browser, chatgpt dotcom opens. In Nepal, since chat.com is banned, it cannot be redirected to chatgpt.

ChatGPT bought the 'Chat.com' domain by paying more than 2 billion

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, posted a URL (chat.com) on social network X.

Earlier this domain was owned by Hubspot founder Dharmesh Shah. At the beginning of the year 2023, Shah bought this domain for 15.5 million dollars (2.8 billion 47 million rupees according to today's exchange rate).

He mentioned this in a recent X post.

But after a few months, Shah said that he had sold the domain. The details of the sale and the name of the buyer were not disclosed.

Now, reposting Altman's post, Shah has revealed that he sold the chat dotcom domain to OpenEye. He has also written the reason why he spent so much to buy the domain.

"I always thought that chat-based software was going to be the next big thing. This is why I bought the domain," he wrote on LinkedIn.

Now, Shah has taken a few percent of OpenEye shares in exchange for the proceeds from the sale of the chat.com domain, which is said to be more than the value of the domains he bought.

With this, you can now run ChatGPT from chat.com.

This is not the first time that a company has bought a domain from someone. The practice of buying and selling domains has been going on since the beginning of the Internet. Just a few months ago, an AI startup called 'Friend' spent 1.8 million dollars to buy the friend.com domain after raising an investment of 2.5 million dollars.