> That Japanese company
That Japanese company is Square Enix (formerly Square, before the merger with Enix), makers of the Final Fantasy games. I'd imagine the US Square must have paid a fairly non-trivial amount for whatever deal was made.
>> "Looks like Square.com redirects now to Squareup.com but the owners are still that Japanese company. Maybe Square has an agreement with them and maybe they will buy Square.com domain name."
Re:Square UK Launches
by artursapek on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @10:10AM
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Interesting. Maybe they're renting it and measuring the benefit of having that redirect, and trying to decide whether they should buy it outright.
Edited to add disclosure: I work for Square, but I don't know the details of our agreement with Square Enix, and I don't know what I'd be allowed to say about it if I did. :-)