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I wonder how much they paid for that domain name. Check out the WhoIs.

Domain Name: MESSENGER.COM

Registrar: HOGAN LOVELLS INTERNATIONAL LLP

Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1526

Whois Server: whois.anchovy.com

Referral URL: http://www.anchovy.com

Name Server: A.NS.FACEBOOK.COM

Name Server: B.NS.FACEBOOK.COM

Updated Date: 12-nov-2014

Creation Date: 04-nov-1998

Expiration Date: 03-nov-2015

I remember Microsoft giving Facebook it's twitter account named MESSENGER. Going by how companies acquire/trademark names. I'd say the domain name is also a gift from Microsoft.

A chrome extension with a button with notifications count + that page inside a popup when clicking the button would be nice. It would probably reduce a lot of my facebook.com usage.

Upon logging in, it serves a text file containing "Please try again later"

Try logging in to Facebook first in the same browser. Then visit messenger.com

You'll see a link on the page asking you if you want to login as your Facebook account name. Click on it and you should get logged in.

Facebook Messenger Web Client