Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
by mrkramer on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:36PM
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But why it would be .org? Isn't .org usually non-profits but Facebook Inc. is all about profit.
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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
by TheDong on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:05PM
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If the larger company name is "The Meta Org" or "Meta Organization" or such, then .org would grammatically fit well with the name.
The tld splitup of ".com is commercial, .org is non-profits, .co.uk is british websites, .io is indian ocean websites" is pretty much out the window. Only a subset of those still are used consistently, such as ".gov is government-affiliated" and a few ccTLDs like ".cn", ".jp", and ".co.uk" being pretty consistent. Some of them have enforced restrictions (like some european ccTLDs require you to have an address in the country), but many of them don't.
.com, .net, and .org are the wild west and might as well mean nothing.