Wayfair is one of Amazon’s largest competitors. The publicly traded company (W on the NYSE) has a market capitalization of nearly $25 billion. While Wayfair.com is a major brand name today, the company started out by purchasing and utilizing solid keyword .com domain names and building out websites on them. Ten years ago, the company that had been known as CSN Stores rebranded as Wayfair, and the rest is history.

The move off of individual keyword domain name brands and into one larger umbrella brand turned out to be a prescient decision as Google changes deemphasized the search engine value of keyword matching .com domain names. Instead of smaller websites operating individually, the company wisely chose to operate under an umbrella brand name called Wayfair.

Late last night, The Verge published an article reporting that “Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name,” and it could be done in similar fashion to how Google created a parent brand in Alphabet. The article stated that the rebrand is being undertaken “to reflect its focus on building the metaverse.”

Exclusive: Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name https://t.co/0NuPhWQsc5 pic.twitter.com/htkzkRBCGI

— The Verge (@verge) October 20, 2021

I speculated / guessed that perhaps Facebook was the private buyer behind the $149,000 purchase of the Meta.so domain name and if this is the case, perhaps the company could rebrand as Metaso or something along those lines.