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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

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Post by thejosh »

yogo wrote: post #14
jusben1369 wrote: post #2

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…

nissan.co takes me to a super shady website. http://betterlivinginsider.com/biz/AU/lp01A.htm?t202id=79166...

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

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Post by laurent123456 »

> a final injunction which allowed Nissan Computer Corporation to maintain control of the domains Nissan.com and Nissan.net so long as it neither advertised nor mentioned/made disparaging comments about Nissan Motor.

First thing I see on nissan.com is a massive "Nissan's motor lawsuite against us" with crossed Nissan logos and "it could happen to you too", then a massive ad below this. Doesn't Nissan have a case that not only he doesn't respect his side of the bargain but he's obviously using Nissan's popularity for his own benefit?

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

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Post by badclient »

jusben1369 wrote: post #2

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)

I've actually met the guy and did some contract work for him. After hearing the story from his mouth, what stuck with me is his utter dislike for the Nissan CEO and Arabs. He seemed very passionate about Israel and cited Nissan's Arab CEO as a huge part of why he dislikes that company.

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

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Post by badclient »

fsck--off wrote: post #8

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

Mr. Nissan used to run a small computer shop in the 90s. He's pretty old school guy who's had to hire shit load of developers over the years for various pages of the site. I was hired at one point to fix an issue with their contact form.

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

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Post by lmartel »

jsumrall wrote: post #12
ciokan wrote: 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.

That's not quite how property works.

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

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Post by badclient »

damian2000 wrote: post #16
jsumrall wrote: 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).

I was trying to negotiate a deal with him to advertise my consulting services on his site. We also bounced ideas about turning the domain into something more meaningful.

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

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Post by jbri »

jsumrall wrote: post #12
ciokan wrote: 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.

Truly, think of how benefit would be gained if we were to eat the rich and redistribute their property!

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

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Post by 8ig8 »

damian2000 wrote: post #16
jsumrall wrote: 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).

What's more, the site is holding up just fine under the _crush_ of HN visitors. Static HTML FTW. :)
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