Paint.NET finally acquired paint.net

After 22 years of using getpaint.net, the creator recovered the obvious domain and closed a long-running piece of software history

After 22 years, PaintNET creator Rick Brewster has finally gained ownership of the paintnet domain name. Since launching PaintNET in 2004, Brewster had to use getpaintnet as the official website because the matching domain was owned by som

Ranked #25 on backlist 2026-05-31 (31 May 2026 UTC) · by @Pirat_Nation (Pirat_Nation ) · view on X ↗

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