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

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Post by braythwayt »

dhosek wrote: post #51
thrwn_frthr_awy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe Ford sued the owner of volvoguy.com and won.

I suspect, though that the owner of volvoguy.com wasn't named Joe Volvoguy. It also appears that volvoguy.com is currently a Chinese language website (which Google says simply tells me that service is not available in my area). On the other hand, Ford hasn't owned Volvo in years and the current owners are a Chinese holding company so who knows? (And Volvo Cars, formerly owned by Ford and now Geely Holding Corp, is no…

Yes, big difference between swedishbrickguy.com and volvoguy.com.

Up here in the People's Republic of Kanuckistan, Canadian Tire even won a case with someone over crappytire.com. I thought that was heinous, personally, but INAL, so I am biting my tongue and not claiming that the judge erred in law.

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Post by Talanes »

d_meeze wrote: post #45
schappim wrote: post #31

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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.

First and only when I tried.

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

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Post by jrochkind1 »

woofie11 wrote: post #16

Uzi 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...

What would you say is the principle involved for holding on to nissan.com instead of selling it for millions?

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

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Post by dencodev »

adtac wrote: post #29
koolba wrote: post #25

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Why would the car maker even care about paying top dollar for the domain at this point?

Same reason Tesla bought tesla.com for $11m. Same reason not owning steam.com gives Valve grief.

They also don't even own valve.com

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

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Post by dencodev »

paultannenbaum wrote: post #27
supernova87a wrote: post #18

Their only purpose seems to be to occupy this domain to counter Nissan the car company. Their own actual business doesn't look that remarkable or even successful. It has eclipsed the purpose of existence almost. Maybe time to declare this isn't worth the trouble in life, and there are better things to spend effort on? What are you winning? Sell, and make a buck while you can. There isn't much principled fight to be g…

This is because of a court ruling: The district court issued a final Judgment (PDF) allowing Nissan Computer to keep its nissan.com and nissan.net domain names, but restricted our rights to do the following: 1. Posting Commercial content at nissan.com and nissan.net; 2. Posting advertising or permitting advertising to be posted by third parties at nissan.com and nissan.net; 3. Posting disparaging remarks or negative…

Wow, it's totally stupid to have a court ruling essentially restricting your free speech on your own domain name.

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Post by CivBase »

woofie11 wrote: post #16

Uzi 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...

What principle? It's just a domain name. They shouldn't be compelled to sell it if they don't want to, but they also shouldn't be compelled to keep it if they don't want to.

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Post by neurobuddha »

dencodev wrote: post #75
adtac wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same reason Tesla bought tesla.com for $11m. Same reason not owning steam.com gives Valve grief.

They also don't even own valve.com

But they are still wildly successful. Makes you wonder if owning the dot com really matters.

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

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Post by polartx »

ahale13 wrote: post #14

Sadly the owner of the domain passed away from Covid-19. See: https://www.gofundme.com/f/Uzi-Nissan

Sitting on the Nissan domain, almost certainly valued at much more than the $50k they’re seeking, it seems out of place to be cyber-panhandling
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