The list is short.
Last week, Facebook announced that it rebranded its corporate entity to Meta as it aims to be a key player in metaverse technology. It is not changing the name of its core properties, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
The company acquired Meta.com through an interesting deal. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative “acquired” a scientific research project called Meta many years ago. Meta (the scientific project) uses meta.org but also used meta.com. Meta (the research project) is being closed next year.
Whenever a company announces a rebrand or new product, it registers many domains to go along with it. For example, Amazon registered 28 domains for its new multi-room Echo audio launch. It registered over 75 domains when it bought naming rights to Seattle’s arena.
Meta appears to be taking a more reserved approach. Perhaps it understands that it can’t own the term meta. Perhaps, like Alphabet, it’s not terribly concerned with protecting it because it’s only a name for the corporate umbrella.
I track Meta’s domain registrations on DomainTools, and only 15 domains related to metaverse have popped up over the past week. Many of them appear to be domains created for internal use. Here’s the list.
fbaidemo.com
fbaidemos.com
internalmetafb.com
internalmetafb.net
internalmt.com
internalmt.net
internmeta.com
internmeta.net
metaaidemo.com
metaaidemos.com
metademolab.com
metainternal.net
fbdemolab.com
metahackathons.net
metaurl.net
For now, it appears Facebook is taking it easy on metaverse-related domains.
A says
Actually, facebook did something no other company has ever done as far as I know. They spent vast amounts of money(for domaining standards) to acquire mediocre names to protect and strengthen their new “Meta” brand. They’ve also registered hundreds of domains in new gtlds.
Most domains are still under whois privacy or 3rd party contractors though.
MIKE says
And a number of Trade Mark filings as well.
Puneet Agarwal says
Nice.
Rob says
Metaverseisreal
Bob says
Interesting about Metaurl.net as I have Metaual.com!
Anonymouse says
It’s not really that interesting Bob.
Allan says
I discovered someone is asking a huge huge amount ( 80 million usd) for metacoin.com.
I had 10$ to spare so I booked metaspecie.com just for fun. Meta being a dictionary word and specie a synonym for coin, money etc
Will be happy if I get 1 % of what metacoin is asking…
Bob says
Worthless, sorry.
Tom Meppem says
I own http://www.themeta.vip and in the process of launching
Metaversegeniuses says
metaversegeniuses.com
Joel S says
I found some to register in short time. The really nice, short tail names already are somewhat more costly. Like $100,000 or higher . Facebook has to have better names than what’s shown. If not, then they need to hire somebody that can find and secure better names. The ones shown are grossly underwhelming. Guess I should apply to work there, or pitch them on the ones I have.
AssetHawk says
A word or concept that was already heavily in use – even in urban dictionary – long before the FB rebrand could be fully protected. FB was late to the party on that. Though I’m sure they will still try.
Les says
I am Lucky to own a few. Here are a few For sale for serious, extremely serious inquiries!!!:
mymetversestory.com (blogger, forum etc…)
metaverseave.com (blogger or VR property etc…)
metaversevixon.com (Gamer, name of the blogger etc…)
easy transfer through GoDaddy.com!! Also listed on Ebay
Anthony Brown says
I’ve just purchased metapremiership.com
Surprised it was still available…
Andrew Allemann says
I’m not…
Joel says
Resurrect sort of old thread to agree. Seems like people are getting dumber. Short domain names are hard enough to remember. Three syllable domain, impossible to remember.
Rahul Agrawal says
Metashareprice.com
Metabyfb.com
Metaby-fb.com
Metaverse domains that has Meta
Rahul Agrawal says
Facebook Meta Metaverse domains server related domains like Nas and Das Server
Nas vs Das Server of Metaverse Meta
Metaversenas.com
Metaversedas.com
Metanasdas.com
I invested further on this three domains
Alan says
They have probably registered / bought thousands of names through proxy IP companies
so people like you can’t track them 😀
Andrew Allemann says
Indeed, they have https://domainnamewire.com/2021/11/08/facebook-registered-more-meta-domains-than-i-thought/