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by e63f67dd-065b 1084 days ago
I was curious and dug through whois:

Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com Registrar URL: https://www.godaddy.com Updated Date: 2023-04-07T13:53:29Z Creation Date: 1997-05-27T23:00:00Z

Did they buy it from a squatter? Somebody with historical whois wanna take a look?
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adobrawy 1084 days ago
The chance to buy such a domain on the primary market (registrar) is close to zero, so they had to buy it back from someone.

Looking at DNS history, there have been several DNS delegation updates this year (potentially between AWS -> GCP -> AWS) until it finally made its way to Facebook less than a month ago. There was no update in 2022, so such migrations are not typical for this domain.

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