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Pretty sure that Amazon and Apple registered their names quite early in the internet frontier days when domains were not very expensive. Not sure what Nike paid
by chadash 8y ago
Pretty sure that Amazon and Apple registered their names quite early in the internet frontier days when domains were not very expensive. Not sure what Nike paid, but they were already a huge company by the time the internet came along. There's a big difference between a conglomerate dishing out a large sum vs. a series A startup.
- gk1 8y agoMy point was about: > personally if I heard 'cover' outside of the context of this article I would not have made that connection at all. Names don't need to be literal or obvious.
- joeax 8y agoIf someone squatted Nike they could have sued and won the rights to the domain pretty easily, as it's trademarked. I remember reading about Volkswagen fighting for vw.com back in the 90's, and the company that owned it wasn't a squatter but an ISP and hosting company called Virtual Works. Yet Volkswagen won anyway.
- true_religion 8y agoI would have squatted on it as part of my relgious faith on the goddess of victory. No court would take it away from me, on the off chance that I was serious.