The reason facebook was "thefacebook.com" is that the harvard yearbook is called "The Facebook"... It wasn't a domain dispute. But it does bring up a good poi

The reason facebook was "thefacebook.com" is that the harvard yearbook is called "The Facebook"... It wasn't a domain dispute. But it does bring up a good point that maybe you can just get some article to put in front of the name to get the .com.