Confirmed: Facebook Acquires FB.com Domain Name

[Archangel]

Ending months of speculation, it’s now confirmed that Facebook has acquired the FB.com domain name.

The whois record for the domain name just updated to show Facebook’s name and nameservers for the domain name.

http://domainnamewire.com/2010/11/12/confirmed-facebook-acquires-fb-com-domain-name/

 

[Namworld]

omg, that's awesome.

I hope they use it as a redirect to Facebook and mostly use it as a content delivery address. Would make their code less heavy to use fb.com/file

 

[Robin]

Wow a great name which highly reflects Facebook image.

A great buy.

 

[Windows7]

This is a great buy, and I see they've redirected it to facebook.com now.

 

[Archangel]

FaceBook is as known as, say, the name Madonna. They could rebrand to merely FB.com easily. The shy (and their wallets) are the limits.

 

[Windows7]

FaceBook is as known as, say, the name Madonna. They could rebrand to merely FB.com easily. The shy (and their wallets) are the limits.

I disagree. The Facebook name is known everywhere now, it's a household name. If it was renamed to FB, I'm not sure that a lot of people would know what it was.

 

[Archangel]

Practically everyone who uses the net has heard of FaceBook or had used it. I could just about guarantee everyone would know what FB was with time. Companies do these things often. Even if ppl couldn't figure that FaceBook and FB were the same thing, there would be a mental association that would forever bridge the two. Case in point: Kentucky Fried Chicken rebranded themselves as KFC and many ppl don't know what KFC actually stands for. But they associate both terms to the same restaurant. These things happen and rebranding to FB likely wouldn't hurt in any way over opting not to.

I disagree. The Facebook name is known everywhere now, it's a household name. If it was renamed to FB, I'm not sure that a lot of people would know what it was.

 

[liquidcherry]

Hmmmmm, i wonder if the FBI could WIPO Facebook because of the confusingly similarity...FB sounds like FBI, doesn't it? LOL, j/k

Randy, you never answered my PM.s!

cheers

Liquid

 

[mwzd]

Think they're going to use it for their free email service which they're claiming will be a gmail killer.

Not sure if they'd want to rebrand the site this late in the day.

Or maybe another url shortener? Will be a total waste of a ll.com though.

 

[DU]

Great now everyone with an F or a B in their domain is going to get handed a UDRP complaint sent their way :lol:

 

[Archangel]

Quite honestly, I wouldn't put this across them :p

Great now everyone with an F or a B in their domain is going to get handed a UDRP complaint sent their way :lol:

 

[HelloHost]

i am beginning to hate facebook because they becoming a bully where you wont be able to buy any domain or they will try to sue you.

 

[DnEbook]

once your big your a bully seems to be the way these days ,

yes no xyz's or fb's in your domains from now on

 

[HelloHost]

i guess next they will be selling domains and leasing them with book or face in it

 

[nrmillions]

fb.com sold for $8.5 million

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/facebook-paid-farm-bureau-8-5-million-to-acquire-fb-com/

 

[Keith]

In facebook dollars that's just about free, lol.

 

[nrmillions]

yea i bet they could have gotten $30 million or more for it. facebook has tons of cash and worth $50 billion and needed this domain badly

 

[the_poet]

Facebook Paid Farm Bureau $8.5 Million To Acquire Fb.com

On November 15th, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook had acquired Fb.com from The American Farm Bureau Federation to use as the domain for internal email addresses now that the Facebook Messages were parked on Facebook.com. But what he didn’t reveal at the time? The acquisition price.

Today Reuters is reporting that the Fb.com domain acquisition, which moved the 6 Million member Farm Bureau over to Fb.org, cost Facebook $8.5 million.

Read more...

 

[Keith]

yea i bet they could have gotten $30 million or more for it. facebook has tons of cash and worth $50 billion and needed this domain badly

I would love to see transcripts on the negotiation. What was the initial offer/counter offer? Outstanding sale for sure!

 

[secretagentdad]

Am I dumb or does that seem awfully low.