MessageBird, an Amsterdam-based cloud communications platform, announced that it has acquired the domain name Bird.com, reportedly for $10M (approx €8.7M). However, Silicon Canals could not independently verify the price.
Recently, Domain Name Wire confirmed that the Dutch scale-up acquired the domain name ‘Bird.com’ through exclusive auction from Monte Cahn of Right of the Dot, after a previous auction for $2.5M (approx €2.2M) fell through last year since the bidder never paid.
The website says, “The domain entered the ‘Pending Transfer’ state last week and moved to MarkMonitor.” Currently, the updated record reflects MessageBird B.V. as the owner.
MessageBird: What you need to know
Founded in 2011 by Adriaan Mol and Robert Vis, MessageBird is a cloud communications platform that connects enterprises to their global customers.
The company’s Inbox.ai enables customers to communicate with businesses practically through any channel of their choosing, including WhatsApp, SMS, Voice, Messenger, Instagram, WeChat, RCS, Line, and Telegram.
The company’s product line also includes a Chat Widget and Flow Builder. The Chat Widget helps convert static pages into dynamic conversations.
The Flow Builder, on the other hand, is an RPA (Robotic Process Automation) platform that enables auto-replies and message routing.
Currently, the Dutch company claims to have more than 20,000 customers, including Lufthansa Airlines, Heineken, Hugo Boss, Rituals Cosmetics, and SAP, as well as rapidly-growing disruptors such as Uber, HelloFresh and Deliveroo.
It has offices in Amsterdam, San Francisco, Singapore, Bogota, London, Shanghai, Dublin, Hamburg, and Sydney.
Last year, the company acquired US-based SparkPost, a predictive email intelligence platform, Amsterdam-based 24sessions, a video-first customer engagement platform, and Atlanta-based Customer Data Platform (CDP) Hull.io.
According to the company, these acquisitions represent an important step for MessageBird in building its global omnichannel platform to help ease communication with a business.
So far, it has raised over $300M (approx €245M) in funding.
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