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In the 90s, I worked for a web firm that did the Nissan Motors USA customer-facing web sites. The management at Nissan USA were always sure we'd be switching to

In the 90s, I worked for a web firm that did the Nissan Motors USA customer-facing web sites. The management at Nissan USA were always sure we'd be switching to the nissan.com domain "any day now." It was impressive how much firepower they expended on Uzi Nissan, and how he was able to fight and hold on by a thread. I secretly sympathized with him, although professionally I had to pretend that the "nissanusa.com" domain was an abomination.

betoharres 6y ago
"any day now." I cracked beautifully xD
woofie11 6y ago
My experience is that lots of people often secretly sympathize. Including the lawyers involved. It's pretty easy to throw a case.
- angst_ridden 6y ago
  I had zero power or influence in that situation. I probably wouldn't even have been the person to update the web server configuration if they had got the domain (although, in those days, there were a lot of static HTML pages and Flash content that would have needed updating).
  - woofie11 6y ago
    You didn't, but I'm just saying others involved did. I'm not sure much of anyone involved on the Nissan side actually cared if Nissan won, except for maybe one or two very senior leaders in Japan, and perhaps not even that. It makes a big difference in a fight.
mleo 6y ago
The 90s and the days of running websites on Silicon Graphics. There seemingly was some sort of lessen learned since Z.com was acquired more easily before the relaunch of the Z. Though the domain seems to have since been sold to another company.
- alasdair_ 6y ago
  I could have sworn that single letter domain names were not allowed and that all domains must be at least two letters (for .com anyway). Turns out that a few single letter domains were grandfathered in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom... I'm glad to be one of the lucky 10,000 today!

betoharres 6y ago

"any day now." I cracked beautifully xD

woofie11 6y ago

My experience is that lots of people often secretly sympathize. Including the lawyers involved. It's pretty easy to throw a case.

angst_ridden 6y ago
I had zero power or influence in that situation. I probably wouldn't even have been the person to update the web server configuration if they had got the domain (although, in those days, there were a lot of static HTML pages and Flash content that would have needed updating).
- woofie11 6y ago
  You didn't, but I'm just saying others involved did. I'm not sure much of anyone involved on the Nissan side actually cared if Nissan won, except for maybe one or two very senior leaders in Japan, and perhaps not even that. It makes a big difference in a fight.

mleo 6y ago

The 90s and the days of running websites on Silicon Graphics. There seemingly was some sort of lessen learned since Z.com was acquired more easily before the relaunch of the Z. Though the domain seems to have since been sold to another company.

alasdair_ 6y ago
I could have sworn that single letter domain names were not allowed and that all domains must be at least two letters (for .com anyway). Turns out that a few single letter domains were grandfathered in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom... I'm glad to be one of the lucky 10,000 today!