Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
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Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
#2I was discussing trademarks and domains with somebody today and tried to show them my favorite long-standing trademark dispute nissan.com but it appears all of the website content has been taken down in May 2022.
Here's one of the last standing copies: https://web.archive.org/web/20220406221134/https://nissan.co...
Oh, and digest.com where he told is lawsuit story is now for sale (http://digest.com/)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220402233023/https://digest.co...
Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
#3Uzi battled Nissan motor company because the company thought they had the right to take the domain from a man who had registered it because it's his surname. Nissan Motors should have been slapped with a massive punitive fine for that, but instead they continued to bleed Mr. Uzi Nissan of his resources by suing him repeatedly.
Memo to Nissan Motor Company: it was because of this act of lawfare that I personally renounced ever buying a Nissan again (even though the Altima and Maxima were excellent cars). You deserve to be punished for your actions. I regret that refusing to give you my business isn't worth more.
Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
#4My brother owns (our last name.com). Our great great grandfather started and ran a fairly successful (pre-prohibition) brewery. Someone found out about our last name, trademarked it, and "restarted" the brewery with no relation to anyone in our family. The best part is they feigned ignorance when they "learned" that there were still living descendants in the area...
Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
#5My brother owns (our last name.com). Our great great grandfather started and ran a fairly successful (pre-prohibition) brewery. Someone found out about our last name, trademarked it, and "restarted" the brewery with no relation to anyone in our family. The best part is they feigned ignorance when they "learned" that there were still living descendants in the area...
What's the next step?
Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
#6It resolves and loads a page for me, it has just been... updated. Wonder if his next of kin will be selling it.
Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
#7While the content of the website appears to be down now, according to the whois[1], the website registration itself with it being registered to Nissan Computer Corp. does not expire until 2024.
Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
#8My brother owns (our last name.com). Our great great grandfather started and ran a fairly successful (pre-prohibition) brewery. Someone found out about our last name, trademarked it, and "restarted" the brewery with no relation to anyone in our family. The best part is they feigned ignorance when they "learned" that there were still living descendants in the area...
What's the next step?
Good question. We've talked to various lawyers throughout the years. The crappy part is that the people who resurrected it have hundreds of millions in real estate backed ventures (big $$$), so there's really not much we can do aside from pound sand considering we weren't brewing the beer, or enforcing the trademark. The even weirder thing is that they used his name as their contact email for the longest time on their website, made a brew dedicated to my late grandfather (a pediatrician they never met) based on tongue-depresser airplanes he made for his patients, and even had the gall to leave one of their first bottled brews at my great great grandfather's gravesite.
So the only thing I can do is just raise awareness, and tell people who ask me if there is any relation (when they see/hear my last name) to not support them!
Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
#9Uzi battled Nissan motor company because the company thought they had the right to take the domain from a man who had registered it because it's his surname. Nissan Motors should have been slapped with a massive punitive fine for that, but instead they continued to bleed Mr. Uzi Nissan of his resources by suing him repeatedly. Memo to Nissan Motor Company: it was because of this act of lawfare that I personally renou…
This moral position transcends time. Don't equate dollars to the actual value of your actions. Your heart is well set against evil.
Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down
#10While the content of the website appears to be down now, according to the whois[1], the website registration itself with it being registered to Nissan Computer Corp. does not expire until 2024. [1]: https://who.is/whois/nissan.com
Is it known who will renew the domain? Nice legacy for the guy.