This is the story as I read it the other day:
https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-internet-domain-owner-who-fo...
Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company)
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#42neither is Square.com owned by Square.
Square the software company that makes games? Or Square the software company that makes payment processing?
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#43This story represents everything that’s wrong with domains. On one hand, you have someone with absolutely no use for the the name holding out against an entity that everyone in the world would assume has ownership of it. On the other hand, you have a company that tried to strong arm the small domain owner in court.
No use for the name? It’s his own last name and he ran a computer consultancy from the website. It wasn’t until Nissan began targeting him that he turned it towards activism, which one might argue is of even greater use.
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#44Different circumstance but reminds me of the battle Microsoft had with Mike Rowe over mikerowesoft.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft
mikerowesoft.com still redirects to microsoft.com
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
What was the outcome? Is it possible to mention the educational hardware company?
We no longer own a domain that we previously legitimately owned. I won’t mention the complainant's name, however, you gotta respect their (lawful evil?) tactics. Taking a previously open-source product manufactured by (the awesome) SparkFun Electronics, “un-open-sourcing” the product, and moving the manufacturing away from the USA to China. When SparkFun ceased manufacturing the product, the result was that schools i…
I also have to respect your chaotic neutral tactics by posting their trademark wording in its entirety, hence guaranteeing they're the first search hit for that phrase.
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#46Uzi Nissan just died of COVID19. It will be interesting to see if his relatives stick to his principals, and hold onto the web site in memory of him, or make millions and sell to Nissan. I hope they hold on. I predict someone will eventually sell, though. Principled people are few and far between. https://www.autonews.com/automakers-suppliers/uzi-nissan-who...
how old was he? cannot find that info anywhere
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would the car maker even care about paying top dollar for the domain at this point?
Yeah I don’t think they would buy it. It’d just result in bad press.
"All press is good press."
Remember getfirefox.com?
Can you imagine how many people type nissan.com into their browser? And how niche that press release would be?
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#48I love how crappy this website is. :D . No, not minimalistic, or old school. Just crappy, with terrible usability. :D
It's more usable than a lot of sites that are completely bloated.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was from the days where people self hosted and used to put up a websites for fun
It's a shame there are no more people putting up fun websites anywhere. /s
Oh, they are, but they're drowned out by "look at this create-react-app hackathon project I made! VCs pls give me a series A thx". Alas, the web is now a profit engine first.
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#50This reminds me of the steam.com domain - for the longest time I've wondered what the relationship is like between the owner and Valve Corporation...
It used to have an actual page, it looks like it's just a registered domain now with a page that times out.