Automattic quietly acquired the rights to .blog in 2015, will start selling the domains later this year

The company behind the world’s most popular publishing platform is trying to make .blog happen. WordPress.com owner Automattic announced today that it has “secured the rights to oversee and operate the sale and registration of .blog domains” more than a year after the top-level domain went up for auction and was sold to a mysterious buyer. An Automattic spokesperson […]