Company Domains
Scale.com Was Registered in 1997. Scale Didn't Exist Until 2016.
scale.com is 19 years older than the company that uses it, and the Internet Archive has the site on record from 1999.
Key takeaways
- scale.com was first registered on 29 December 1997 and its registration runs until 6 November 2030.
- Scale was founded in 2016, 19 years after the domain was registered.
- The Internet Archive’s earliest saved copy of the site is from 25 January 1999.
- Crunchbase lists about $16B of total equity funding, which is money raised, not valuation.
scale.com was first registered on 29 December 1997. Scale did not exist until 2016. Its founders are Lucy Guo. The domain is 19 years older than the company that now uses it.
Scale has raised about $16B in equity, according to Crunchbase. That is not a valuation, and the figure is rounded. That puts Scale at number 7 of the 1,856 companies in the list used for this series.
The company at a glance
| Founded | 2016 |
| Founders | Lucy Guo |
| Headquarters | San Francisco |
| Total equity funding | $16B raised, not valuation (Crunchbase, rounded) |
The domain at a glance
| Extension | .com |
| Name length | five letters |
| First registered | 29 December 1997 |
| Age | 28 years |
| Registered until | 6 November 2030 |
| First archived | 25 January 1999 (Internet Archive) |
| Registrar | Amazon Registrar, Inc. |
| Locked | Yes, against transfer |
| DNS | Cloudflare |
| Google Workspace | |
| Other extensions | scale.co.uk does not respond; scale.ai redirects to scale.com; scale.net loads its own site; scale.org does not respond |
What the registry records
The registry gives scale.com a creation date of 29 December 1997 and a registration that runs until 6 November 2030. The registrar is Amazon Registrar, Inc, and the domain carries registry locks against transfer.
The current registration of scale.com is 28 years old. 1,362 of the 1,912 companies in the Crunchbase list use a .com address.
A registry creation date is the start of the current registration, not a sale date, and the record does not name earlier holders.
The archive before the company
The Internet Archive’s earliest saved copy of scale.com is from 25 January 1999 and is titled “Digimedia”. It holds copies from 91 separate months before Scale was founded. It has no copy for 2000, 2001 or 2002. In total it holds copies from 213 separate months.
An archived page title shows what a site called itself, not who ran it.
The company and the name
scale.ai redirects to scale.com. scale.net loads its own site, and who runs it has not been checked. scale.co.uk and scale.org resolve but returned no page. The DNS is hosted on Cloudflare and email runs on Google Workspace.
The company behind the name
Scale is headquartered in San Francisco.
What was paid
What Scale paid for scale.com is not on any verified public record, so no price is given.
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Sources
Registry data checked 20 October 2026. Funding is from the Crunchbase Unicorn Board, which rounds its figures.
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Frequently asked questions
When was scale.com registered?
scale.com was first registered on 29 December 1997, according to the .com registry record. The registration runs until 6 November 2030.
How much did Scale pay for scale.com?
No verified public record was found of what Scale paid for scale.com, so no price is given.
Who founded Scale?
Scale was founded in 2016 by Lucy Guo.
