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Meta acquires the Threads.com domain name (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] Lost_My_Mind 73 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly surprised they didn't have it already....

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that seems like an oversight on their behalf.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It belonged to another startup, I guess they were négociating and seeing if Threads would pick up in usage before giving them an offer that they wouldn't refuse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Ah, I remember now.

I bet a few millions changed hands to settle that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Yeah what idiot doesn’t have the domain name. The moment they released it, its value went up exponentially.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So many $$$$$$$$$$$$$, no doubt, for a single record in a database.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A single record that is replicated to millions of other databases in a tree structure.

[–] 2deck 3 points 2 months ago

For roughly 12 people to use haha