Facebook.com domain was bought for $200,000

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Facebook bought their domain name facebook.com from AboutFace Corporation in 2005 for $200,000. The site had originally run on thefacebook.com.

Later in 2010, the social networking giant spent $8.5 million to buy FB.com from American Farm Bureau Federation. FB is how Facebook is referred to by web users!

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