PayPal is officially an independent company once again, almost 13 years since eBay acquired it for $1.5 billion dollars.
The transaction facilitator company enters the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol PYPL.
Dan Schulman, PayPal CEO stated:
“It’s been a privilege for everyone here at PayPal to have worked so closely with you and your company over the years. We’re grateful that you’ve chosen us as your payments partner and we can’t thank you enough for your support and your belief in our vision.”
Naturally, PayPal also owns the domain name PYPL.com, which forwards to the investor relations segment at PayPal.
The domain appears to have been acquired in early 2015 from its previous owner, AskMySite; the domain was registered in 2004, according to DomainTools.
It appears that PayP.al, a domain hack utilizing the Albanian ccTLD dot .AL, is also owned by PayPal but it’s inactive.
PayPal has extended its policy recently, to expand buyer coverage to intangible assets, such as software.
They join companies like Goldman Sachs, Intel, Godaddy, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook..