Automattic.com Owner of WordPress Acquires JetPack.com

December 9, 2015 by Michael Berkens

Automattic.com which is the Owner of WordPress.com appears to have Acquired the domain name JetPack.com

Jetpack is built into the WordPress Platform and also serves as the stat program for WordPress sites like TheDomains.com

Automattic.com has been using the domain name Jetpack.me for the service, but yesterday the whois records updated and the domain names is now registered by Mark Monitor with WordPress name servers.

It appears that the domain name that was formerly owned by Jetpack Design of Santa Monica sold the domain name last month.

The domain name JetPack.com has an Estibot.com valuation of $110,000.

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

SoFreeDomains says

December 10, 2015 at 5:47 am

I think WordPress is getting too much food into their mouth that they can chew.
Matias Padilla says

December 10, 2015 at 8:03 am

There can be as many new extensions as you want, but .com is still king, well done Automattic
Domain Observer says

December 10, 2015 at 8:22 am

From yesterday, I see domains for sale ad links on this blog from time to time.
- DNSal.es says
  
  December 10, 2015 at 10:29 am
  
  So far .com forwards to .me
DomainiNames says

December 10, 2015 at 9:17 am

This is a natural buy for Automattic. JatPack has been so popular for many years within the WP community so it only makes sense to see they finally bought the proper domain name.