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> Their only purpose seems to be to occupy this domain to counter Nissan the car company. It's the guy's name. He registered the domain 5 years before Nissan M
by jagged-chisel 6y ago
> Their only purpose seems to be to occupy this domain to counter Nissan the car company.
It's the guy's name. He registered the domain 5 years before Nissan Motor Company showed interest. He seems to have started businesses further and further from "automobiles" so that he wouldn't have a trademark dispute with the car company.
> Their own actual business doesn't look that remarkable or even successful.
Is that the measure by which someone should keep their property?
- baddox 6y agoIt's lots of people's names, of course. I don't agree that domains should be redistributed based continuously purely on "what's the biggest company with this name," but I also don't like how much momentum you get just from being interested in the web in the 90s and picking up the juicy domain names. I don't have a great solution, but I don't think the status quo does a great job of allocating domain names with either economic efficiency or with user-friendliness in mind. Of course, one could certainly argue that domain names are much less important now that most people get their content either directly from the massive media/social networking websites or indirectly from Google searches.