Meta needs permission from a Colombian department to use .meta
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Meta Platforms applied for the .meta top-level domain in ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN's 2026 expansion round and says it plans to use it as a dot-brand for its own domains only. Because Meta is also the name of a Colombian department on the ISO 3166-2 list, ICANN's rules treat .meta as a geographic name that needs a permission letter from that department's government.
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Meta wants the .meta web ending for its own use only. A region in Colombia has the same name, so Meta needs a letter of approval from that region's government before it can get the ending.