The period as a thousands separator is common in some English speaking areas. A minority of them for sure, but there are a few that do it that way.
My favorite one is India's tradition of grouping by hundred thousand.
Interestingly, Canada uses both characters as decimal separators, but English always uses a period, and French always uses a comma. That's probably also why Canada also uses a space as a thousands separator, not a comma like the US.
See the Examples of Use section of that Wikipedia page for a more extensive list.