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Facebook launches gaming portal on FB.GG

June 8, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

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Facebook launched their gaming creator portal on a .GG domain. The country code for Guernsey has become popular for esports. Facebook is using the domain name FB.GG.

Some background:

Wikipedia info .gg is the country code top-level domain for the crown dependency of Guernsey, including the islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou and Lihou (plus several uninhabited islands and islets). The domain is administered by Island Networks, who also administer the .je domain for neighbouring territory Jersey.

Morgan Linton wrote an article earlier this year on .GG and why it’s being used by gamers.

Morgan wrote:

In the eSports world, branding on a .GG is actually seen as a bit more hip and cool than .COM so many of these teams and tournaments aren’t making a push to get their .COM and likely won’t anytime soon. As many of you know, I still think .COM is without a doubt the best investment grade domain name out there, but in the eSports world at the moment .GG is king.

VentureBeat covered the launch of FB.GG:

Facebook is hoping its Gaming Creator portal, FB.GG, will get even more people to watch broadcasts like Havlock’s. Users can browse according to which games they’re interested in, and it also serves up suggested livestreams based on users’ interests.

“You’ll notice it looks a bit similar to news feed, but at the top you see gaming-specific content, both for gaming video and for our games platform, Instant Games,” said Facebook product manager Nick Miller. “You have your streamers that are currently live, or games you follow, at the top for quick access. Things you engage with all the time and actively follow. Then there’s what is essentially a feed, where you can scroll through and see all the relevant content that maybe you missed, or that you don’t know about, that you’d also be interested in. That could be video. It could be news articles. It could be other games.”

Read the full article here

Filed Under: ccTLD's, Domain Names, Facebook

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

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Comments

  1. Aamir says

    June 8, 2018 at 4:32 am

    They should have paid $20K plus the escrow costs for FBGG.COM

    Reply
  2. jose says

    June 8, 2018 at 7:03 am

    shocking. not FB.GC, not gaming.facebook, not FB.game, but the “hot” extension .GG. go figure humans

    Reply
  3. Anil Joshi says

    June 8, 2018 at 7:24 am

    Hi Raymond,
    Looks like Facebook has bought Terragraph.com for its super fast urban wifi service. The domain was first registered in 2004 by a Korean guy. However, it looks to have been sold in 2018/4/6. May be for high 5 figures to 6 figure amount. Any info you have on this? Because I am brokering Terragraphs.com, Terragraphing.com, and Terragrapher.com. Thanks. (I hope this is not out of context.)

    Reply
  4. Juan says

    June 8, 2018 at 2:07 pm

    It redirects to https://www.facebook.com/gaming/

    Reply
  5. Snoopy says

    June 10, 2018 at 5:19 am

    Yep, getting sent to Facebook.com.

    Reply
  6. Special.TV says

    June 11, 2018 at 8:05 am

    They should have gone for FB.GAME or FBGame.com

    Reply
  7. Auction.fyi says

    June 13, 2018 at 11:17 pm

    why not a .game gTLD ? :/
    what is .gg ??

    Reply

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