A Reddit user who bought a Grand Theft Auto VI-related domain as a joke has walked away with $2,000 richer and may have inadvertently confirmed one of the game's biggest map secrets in the process.
The user, posting as u/rainyaltaccount on the r/GTA6 subreddit, revealed that they purchased the domain visitgloriana.com back in May 2025 after spotting "State of Gloriana" on license plates throughout the second GTA 6 trailer.
What started as a harmless troll, where the user set the domain to redirect visitors straight to Rockstar Games' official website, ended with Rockstar quietly buying it from them months later.
According to the original post, a middleman contacted the domain owner at the end of 2025 with an initial offer of around $600. The user turned it down, assuming it was a joke. A few days later, the middleman returned with what was described as "a much more aggressive offer." After some back-and-forth negotiations, both parties settled on approximately $2,000.
But that's not the end of the story. After the sale, the domain's registrar changed to MarkMonitor, a corporate domain management company that protects brands online. This is the same registrar that handles every confirmed Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive domain, including rockstargames.com and in-game parody websites like Eyefind.info from Grand Theft Auto IV.
Rockstar has a well-documented history of registering domains for their fictional in-game locations, and securing a fan-owned domain that could cause confusion seems very much on-brand.
