i wonder how hello.com ended up in its current owner (the orkut guy).

it used to belong to the company that made picasa — google bought picasa.

then sometime between 2009 and 2016 after orkut (an edgy hobby social media made by a guy called orkut at google, which ended up becoming semi official) got shut down, hello.com became a landing page for a new social media platform made by the orkut guy. i wonder how the he managed to get hello.com at google, and how he managed to keep it (and orkut.com) after leaving.

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31809240 https://domainnamewire.com/2014/04/07/google-appears-to-have-sold-hello-com-domain-name/