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At one time, in the late 90s and early 2000s, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., owned many thousands of variants of the words 'walmart' and various bad or negative words.
by Diederich 11y ago
At one time, in the late 90s and early 2000s, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., owned many thousands of variants of the words 'walmart' and various bad or negative words. A lot of that was in reaction to the visibility of (I believe) walmartsucks.com
One way or another, talk about an exercise in futility.
- edwhitesell 11y agoKinda like Home Depot, which also owns: homodepot.com
- nullrouted 11y agoThat is actually pretty hilarious....I wonder if they grabbed it because of potential issues with the name or mainly because of mistypes. We grabbed quite a few names due to people misspelling the domain so we could direct them to the proper site, never really cared about the <name>sucks.com stuff.
- jandrese 11y agoLooks like they also snagged homedespot.com.
- sitkack 11y agoBut that is what I call it!
- amyjess 11y agoAlso, from what I understand, most big retail businesses and service providers own [their-name]sucks.com now thanks to that.
- morganvachon 11y agoThey also like to go after legally protected parody and win by bullying: http://consumerist.com/2015/05/19/walmart-is-now-the-rightful-owner-of-walmart-horse/ http://consumerist.com/2015/05/19/walmart-is-now-the-rightfu...
- Diederich 11y agoDidn't know about that...but I recall they've gone after a few others.