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Verizon is mashing Yahoo and AOL into a new company called Oath
- dsl 10y agoInterestingly enough, it looks like Oath.com is owned by Gary Millin, a very prominent domainer. They probably should have waited to announce the rebranding until after they negotiated for the name...
- beamatronic 10y agoSee also Nissan.com
- jaredsohn 10y agoAt least Nissan had their name prior to the domain being taken (they just didn't register it early enough.) When I first read this I was thinking that this might be an Alphabet-type situation where the domain name doesn't really matter but I'm not getting that impression now.
- aabajian 10y agoThis is interesting. At first I was on the side of Nissan Computer Corp., but on thinking about it: it's only because of Google that I know Nissan.com is not the motor company. This must have been a major pain for Nissan motors before Google. Nissan.com probably has many, many more hits due to visitors trying to find Nissan Motors. In such cases, I think we need to have a means to acknowledge that there is probably a stronger argument in favor of Nissan motors owning the domain.
- dpark 10y ago> more hits due to visitors trying to find Nissan Motors. In such cases, I think we need to have a means to acknowledge that there is probably a stronger argument in favor of Nissan motors owning the domain. In no way do we need to acknowledge that. If strangers show up at my house looking for you every hour, that doesn't mean that you should "probably" own my house. If Nissan wanted the domain, they should have offered a fair price rather than trying to take it via a unfounded lawsuit.
- jaredsohn 10y agoI agree. I think the large number of people going to nissan.com expecting to find Nissan Motors just serves as evidence that Nissan Motors should consider buying the domain (assuming that Nissan gets sufficient benefit by having those visitors go directly to their site when they type out nissan.com)
- mmanfrin 10y agoThat is a very expensive oversight if they did not already negotiate. I would not be surprised, however, if they already have an agreement (and kept it in his name until after the announcement, so that it would not be 'leaked' by the whois changing).
- dsl 10y agoI have a bunch of experience in this area. Domains are almost always acquired by a brand protection company like MarkMonitor or CSC. The domain is then transferred to the brand company or a shell company they own. A few years ago I sold a domain to a major video game company. They created an entirely new Delaware LLC to receive the name and hide the fact that it was an upcoming franchise.
- pfarnsworth 10y agoVerizon is going to learn the hard way that taking two pieces of shit and mashing them together will not magically turn them into a piece of gold, no matter how many billions of dollars they spend on it.
- snarf21 10y agoThis is a huge fail whale. They missed the lesson from the AOL / Time Warner deal. Believe me, I lived through it. The "synergies" aren't there. They vastly overpaid for both. The thing I think it does say is that they have so much money they don't really care.
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- sroussey 10y agoAt first I thought it said oauth! I was thinking, 1.0 or 2.0?
- jaredsohn 10y agoAt some point, people may get to implement Oath oauth login to a site by connecting via oath. :)
- astrodust 10y ago"Login with Oath" vs. "Login with Oauth"
- drannex 10y agoI never want to see that in my life.
- DaTruthHurts 10y agoYou bitches are going to suck the dicks of the humorless downvote brigade in no time..!
- jcwayne 10y agoAuth/auth via Oath oauth.
- shmerl 10y agoVerizon should upgrade all their DSL to fiber optics, instead of wasting time on AOL/Yahoo.
- astrodust 10y agoHow would executive bonuses get any bigger with that plan?
- empath75 10y agoI think people misunderstand what's going on here. The aol and yahoo brands are not going away. This is more of an internal reorg. You're not going to go to oath.com or oath fantasy football. This is like alphabet with google, but internal.
- pasbesoin 10y agoIt's missing brackets, i.e. [Oath]