How did Facebook (aka Meta) aquire the name/domain "threads"?

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How did Facebook (aka Meta) aquire the name/domain "threads"? - Lemmy.world

Isn’t this a very common phrase? Surely, someone already thought about this?

It seems that before Instagram's Threads was launched, threads.net was just a domain name parked for sale with GoDaddy's domain auction service Afternic: https://web.archive.org/web/20221115220239/http://threads.net/

So I guess Meta just paid whatever they were asking for?