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As a sentient being, I also feel the urge to support an individual against a company. And I am sure that finders-keepers is an intuition ingrained not to just h
by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
As a sentient being, I also feel the urge to support an individual against a company. And I am sure that finders-keepers is an intuition ingrained not to just humans, but to the whole nature.
However, as I try taking this not-personal, and resolve this more logically than just sentimentally, it becomes really hard to make any sense of the fact that the domain nissan.com belongs a company that almost nobody knows (Nissan Computers), when a significant fraction of the human population would (falsely) assume that the domain belongs to another company (Nissan Motors) to which they might even try to reach by directly typing "www.nissan.com" on their browsers' address bar, without even searching for it on Google/Bing/whatever.
In the end, the fact that http://nissan.com/ http://nissan.com/ points to somewhere else than Nissan Motors Company's (NMC) website is even detrimental against the overall experience of the Internet's users. Almost nobody heading to that website expects to see some place else than NMC's website. Even Uzi Nissan would be very much unhappy about it, if it was not a website visit, but a phone call. It is like a constant wrong-number situation.
- charlesdm 9y agoWell, then they should just buy it? They could easily pay $10m and I'm pretty sure it would repay itself over a number of years quite easily. They probably spent millions on attorney fees trying to acquire the domain -- pathetic.
- ThoAppelsin 9y agoI had the impression that Uzi Nissan did not want to sell the domain regardless of the amount they would offer. The article says he told the following: > “Fifteen million dollars. Do you understand right now that I don’t want to sell?” From the manner of speech, I think he said a random large amount, not that he had any intention to sell the domain.
- ScottBurson 9y agoHe didn't expect them to be willing to pay that kind of money, and he was right. But if they had countered at $10M or even $5M, and waved a check under his nose, do you really think he wouldn't have taken it?
- ThoAppelsin 9y agoKnowing him no more than how he was described by the story, that is exactly what I would expect from him.
- ggm 9y agoThey can buy it for what its worth to them, as a brand. Thats the nature of First Come First Served domains, with equal justification. Just because Nissan is big, does not mean they own the name entirely, over anyone else's prior rights.
- ThoAppelsin 9y agoThe article explains it as if the nissan.com domain was priceless to Uzi Nissan.
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- ggm 9y agoIt was certainly worth as much as the legal cost to Nissan motors. Why should Uzi Nissan be denied that implied value? Whatever else, it certainly wasn't domain squatting as I understand it.
- kakarot 9y agoIf you don't support the government forcibly reappropriating land from individuals for corporate projects, then you shouldn't support domain reappropriation either.