Ok, let's don't go that further,
NFT wasn't anything about 3 years ago, now almost any tech/trade/art related person know about it anywhere on the earth yet nft.com is still inactive...
When NFT.com becomes active does it going to kill the other NFT related domain names or gonna make them less desirable ? I'm not sure if you (
@NameFu ) familiar with NFTs, there is a website called opensea.io leading the majority of the NFT market and i assume they will take the lead until a better market evolves. But still people are regging or purchasing NFT related domain names mostly, not just for developing also to have a gateway to NFT world. (redirecting)
It's the matter of which mega companies want to be part of
metaverse. First big step came from facebook. If microsoft acquires metaverse.com are we able to say FB is the monopol? we will slightly say "Hey FB one second please", and say welcome to Microsoft. If Elon Musk acquires MetaEarth/MetaWorld/MetaMars.com (just an example) than we are in the war of whales. Beside them anybody work on metaverse with/without meta domain names gonna benefit because when meta ecosystem grow if affects everyone who are in.
Ofcourse not all the companies/startups going to use Meta as their name in order to be successful, they might choose unrelated names too (from the opensea example) It will matter how much they put in. But having meta+metaverse name is a gateway for sure.
In conclusion, Meta/Metaverse is not being popular beacuse Facebook heading in. Metaverse gets popular because circumstances take us there and Facebook is the first whale getting advantage of it.