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Re: Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company)

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Post by koolba »

jchook wrote: post #47
rudedogg wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> Can you imagine how many people type nissan.com into their browser?

I bet it’s not that many.

When’s the last time you entered a URL in the address bar directly for a website you’d never been to?

I don’t even trust myself to not have an accidental typo so if it’s not a bookmark or copy/paste from an external source, it goes through a search engine.

Re: Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company)

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Post by angst_ridden »

woofie11 wrote: post #55
angst_ridden wrote: post #36

In the 90s, I worked for a web firm that did the Nissan Motors USA customer-facing web sites. The management at Nissan USA were always sure we'd be switching to the nissan.com domain "any day now." It was impressive how much firepower they expended on Uzi Nissan, and how he was able to fight and hold on by a thread. I secretly sympathized with him, although professionally I had to pretend that the "nissanusa.com" dom…

My experience is that lots of people often secretly sympathize. Including the lawyers involved. It's pretty easy to throw a case.

I had zero power or influence in that situation. I probably wouldn't even have been the person to update the web server configuration if they had got the domain (although, in those days, there were a lot of static HTML pages and Flash content that would have needed updating).

Re: Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company)

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Post by Skunkleton »

JackFr wrote: post #56
jacobwilliamroy wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It kind of paints a dark picture. The family unit used to be like a person who never died. Wealth, ideas, skills, values all would be passed down and developed over time. Now the corporations can outlive us, they can wait. Our families are weaker than the corporations. That scares me.

Many people find corporations more democratic than an aristocracy. I’d rather have AMZN on NASDAQ than have Lord Bezos become a trillionaire.

Good thing we don't have to choose!

Re: Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company)

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Post by mleo »

angst_ridden wrote: post #36

In the 90s, I worked for a web firm that did the Nissan Motors USA customer-facing web sites. The management at Nissan USA were always sure we'd be switching to the nissan.com domain "any day now." It was impressive how much firepower they expended on Uzi Nissan, and how he was able to fight and hold on by a thread. I secretly sympathized with him, although professionally I had to pretend that the "nissanusa.com" dom…

The 90s and the days of running websites on Silicon Graphics.

There seemingly was some sort of lessen learned since Z.com was acquired more easily before the relaunch of the Z. Though the domain seems to have since been sold to another company.

Re: Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company)

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Post by eindiran »

koolba wrote: post #61
jchook wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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?

> Can you imagine how many people type nissan.com into their browser? I bet it’s not that many. When’s the last time you entered a URL in the address bar directly for a website you’d never been to? I don’t even trust myself to not have an accidental typo so if it’s not a bookmark or copy/paste from an external source, it goes through a search engine.

I think people do it more than you'd guess; especially the case where they have been to the correct Nissan site recently, didn't notice the URL, and then are navigating back quickly.

I have done that within the last few years: I was attempting to install Steam on a new machine, and forgot the address is actually "store.steampowered.com".

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Post by dencodev »

schappim wrote: post #31
searchableguy wrote: post #19

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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…

Makey Makey for anyone to lazy to Google

Re: Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company)

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Post by CarbyAu »

JackFr wrote: post #56
jacobwilliamroy wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It kind of paints a dark picture. The family unit used to be like a person who never died. Wealth, ideas, skills, values all would be passed down and developed over time. Now the corporations can outlive us, they can wait. Our families are weaker than the corporations. That scares me.

Many people find corporations more democratic than an aristocracy. I’d rather have AMZN on NASDAQ than have Lord Bezos become a trillionaire.

Your second sentence, what's the difference?

Isn't he likely going to be the next trillionaire anyway, with or without the title of Lord?

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