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Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website

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Re: Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website

#11
This post is clickbait with basically zero content. The story of Nissan.com is well known to anyone who's been around the web for long. After all the battle started in the '90s.

This article is saying "The web is important! Nissan Motor Company wants to own nissan.com!"

No shit.

Re: Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website

#12
post #7
post #5

I looked at nissan.com, and its a shame that the site is basically internet trash and lame ads.

Apparently the man's virtue and principles worth more than whatever you would put instead of those "internet trash and lame ads"

All the people who go to "nissan.com" looking for info about their car and having to spend more time finding the site, while small for each person, add up to a lot of wasted time in total. All for an insurance ad. Taking the web owners rights out of the equation, it seems like a misuse of the domain. Yes, I get how he bought it first, but it just seems wrong.

Re: Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website

#14

Lost in this overview (and I couldn't really tell the point of the overview) are the probably 10 000 + people per year who go to this site by mistake. It's odd to me that Nissan didn't just offer him those 7 figures worth of legal fees and solve it (or maybe they did to no effect)

Exactly. My first thought whenever this topic comes up is why a company that big simply can't make him an offer he couldn't refuse. Maybe he's stubborn or something but I have to take the little guy's side here.

Maybe they should get nissan.co lmao. Wait, nissan.co leads to Mazda. Hmm, it's not immediately clear to me what the relationship between nissan and mazda is.

Edit: nevermind, it seems to take you to a random car related destination. After checking it out further the dntx.com domain takes you to mazda first, then some other car search site, then finally a site with an empty template.

Re: Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website

#15
post #11

This post is clickbait with basically zero content. The story of Nissan.com is well known to anyone who's been around the web for long. After all the battle started in the '90s. This article is saying "The web is important! Nissan Motor Company wants to own nissan.com!" No shit.

Hadn't heard about it until now. I've been around the web for, I dunno, two decades. Seems interesting enough.

Re: Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website

#16
post #5

I looked at nissan.com, and its a shame that the site is basically internet trash and lame ads.

It looks like it was created in FrontPage 98. That said, the buttons on the left work and he is actually running a small business selling computer products and services (such as programming @ $90/hr).

Re: Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website

#17
post #10

Wow. I think the source code belongs in The Daily WTF. Just look at this gem: People's Opinions   Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 (Snipped about 500 lines) page 503 page 504 page 505

I wonder how much simpler our browsers could be if we didn't have to worry about rendering and styling this breed of dated spec-breaking insanity.

It is, probably, the stupidest pagination scheme i've ever seen.

Though back in the day, I thought using form dropdown lists for page navigation was cool too. Of course I never had 500+ pages either.. and I got over it.

Re: Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website

#18
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Had to find some way to pay those attorney fees...

It would be really interesting to know how much revenue this site earns him.

Unsurprisingly, car insurance has a high cost per click rate.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2095210/How-Google-Make...

maximum $54.91 per click back in 2011.

Since then, the ranking has been taken over by mesothelioma lawyers.

http://www.spyfu.com/TopList.aspx?listId=3

$370.53 per click.

Re: Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website

#19
post #10

Wow. I think the source code belongs in The Daily WTF. Just look at this gem: People's Opinions   Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 (Snipped about 500 lines) page 503 page 504 page 505

I wonder how much simpler our browsers could be if we didn't have to worry about rendering and styling this breed of dated spec-breaking insanity.

Not significantly simpler. I'd imagine that the module that parses malformed HTML into a hierarchy is separate from any rendering-related behavior. EDIT: But I'd love to be proven wrong.

Re: Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website

#20
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently the man's virtue and principles worth more than whatever you would put instead of those "internet trash and lame ads"

All the people who go to "nissan.com" looking for info about their car and having to spend more time finding the site, while small for each person, add up to a lot of wasted time in total. All for an insurance ad. Taking the web owners rights out of the equation, it seems like a misuse of the domain. Yes, I get how he bought it first, but it just seems wrong.

> Taking the web owners rights out of the equation, ...

Why would you do that?

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