sebi@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoHow did Facebook (aka Meta) aquire the name/domain "threads"?message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareHow did Facebook (aka Meta) aquire the name/domain "threads"?sebi@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerestarossa@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoIsn’t this something else though? Meta’s is .net isn’t it? So even they couldn’t get the .com… edit: Indeed it’s nothing to do with Meta, though it seems kinda related. Bit surprised Meta went with the name actually.
minus-squareSilver Golden@lemmy.brendan.ielinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoah ye are right, I briefly checked out .com and it seemed to roughly match .net was registered in 1997 so the same roughly still applies
Isn’t this something else though? Meta’s is .net isn’t it? So even they couldn’t get the .com…
edit: Indeed it’s nothing to do with Meta, though it seems kinda related. Bit surprised Meta went with the name actually.
ah ye are right, I briefly checked out .com and it seemed to roughly match
.net was registered in 1997 so the same roughly still applies