With more than $1 billion raised, Dutch cloud communications scale-up MessageBird can certainly afford to buy a domain name here and there.

But outbidding publicly-listed e-scooter and e-bike juggernaut Bird for the bird.com domain name? That warrants some special attention.

Domain Name Wire recently confirmed that MessageBird is, in fact, the new owner of the bird.com domain name, acquired through an exclusive auction with Monte Cahn of Right of the Dot, after an earlier sale for $2.5 million fizzled out in 2021.