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When FB announces its new brand name as "meta", I was wondering if they already own the domain "meta.com" since it was a short four characters.

Personally, I never had the chance to reserve a dot com domain with a beautiful/elegant/meaningful name. Whatever I type, it appears to be already reserved and, to add insult to injury, most of them where not active! So, mostly, I end up picking the full name in the TLD, something like: "youtu.be" , "app.store" etc

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife already owned meta.com. The history of that domain name can be found here:

https://twitter.com/hieuSSR/status/1453920342477447169

Remains comedic that a company whose brand has become synonymous with lack of self-awareness lurched in this direction.

This detail is frosting on the cake.

I'm surprised VMware hasn't gone after them for the Horizon name when it comes to any kind of working environment.

Horizon Workspaces... or Horizon Workrooms?

Wow! That seems to be very close terms in both naming and operation. Maybe Nvidia is busy building its nextgen of DGX A100!