Facebook Gets Facebook.ir in Iran With Help From United Nations

Courtesy Mashable!  Tue, 07/28/2009 - 20:31

Facebook LogoDo you remember when Facebook used to be thefacebook.com?

Yeah, me neither. That was all the way back in 2005, before the company purchased the Facebook.com domain for $200,000.

Now Facebook controls practically every Facebook domain from nearly every country.

However, we didn’t know until now that Facebook didn’t own Facebook.ir – the top level domain for Iranian websites.

With the company launching a Persian version of Facebook soon after the Iran...

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