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by WorldMaker 970 days ago
The company was founded on it. It was "thefacebook.com" for years as it fought to get the domain name without "the". (Also, there were lots of face books at the time. Claiming "The" was a wild hair that also seemed to win PR for them.)
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> Also, there were lots of face books at the time.

Trademark-wise, "Facebook" and "Book of Faces" are different things.