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Space Jam 2
- 035lp 6y agohahah good one
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- capableweb 6y ago> We sell Jam that looks like space. > You are welcome to buy our jam or you can also buy our website. > We are independent and not related to any third parties. Domain squatting cleverly disguised as a small home-business selling jam? Neat. Seems the domain was registered 1702 days ago (~5 years) so the owners have been sitting on this for some time.
- null_deref 6y ago> Domain squatting cleverly disguised as a small home-business selling jam? Neat. Look at the text in https://www.spacejam2.com/press-kit https://www.spacejam2.com/press-kit > JAM COMPANY TROLLS WARNER BROS BY NABBING 'SPACEJAM2.COM' URL AND OFFERING IT FOR $1M
- Raed667 6y agoThis is the best domain squatting I've seen since rayban.fr
- wincy 6y agoWouaf wouaf !
- vr46 6y agoYou totally got me
- mierz00 6y agoI'm amazed by the effort they have put into domain squatting. I wonder if it will pay off.
- goodoldneon 6y agoWonder if they’ll push the envelope further. Maybe release LeBerry Jams
- rgoulter 6y agoRelated: "Space Jam's 1996 website has finally been updated" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26682980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26682980
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- rahidz 6y agohttps://www.spacejam2.com/press-kit https://www.spacejam2.com/press-kit Wouldn't this run afoul of cyber-squatting regulations when you're straight up admitting to it?
- devoutsalsa 6y agoEven if it did, I'm guessing the squatter wouldn't care. It sounds like they have a sense of humor, and now they have a good story.
- swiftcoder 6y agoI can't imagine it'd be cheaper to sue them for the squatting the domain name, than to fork over the $1 million to charity in the name of great PR.
- syx 6y agoParked Domain Girl grew up to be a domain squatter in the end :)
- kristianc 6y agoThere’s probably good reasons why WB wouldn’t want to purchase the domain - the original has been so widely linked to that you’d be throwing away a ton of link equity for no good reason, the original was in 1996 so there will be a new generation of people discovering this for the first time, and well, domain names probably just don’t mean as much as they used to anyway. Still, good luck to them.
- capableweb 6y ago> Still, good luck to them Why would you cheer on people making the internet a worse place? We would all be better off without squatters, not the other way around...
- kristianc 6y agoSorry - sarcasm there.
- parsimo2010 6y agoThey even went through the effort of making a few videos. And now Warner Bros has the nerve to call this sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy, without a 2 in the name, and this domain is practically worthless.
- franciscop 6y agoNot really, hilariously the "trailer" is a picture of their farm trailer with some background music, not a movie/product trailer.
- parsimo2010 6y agoThey also made this one, which would have taken more effort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWhhk2UUX9k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWhhk2UUX9k
- franciscop 6y agoAh you are right, I only saw this one on the official website: https://www.spacejam2.com/space-jam-2-trailer https://www.spacejam2.com/space-jam-2-trailer
- chungy 6y ago"the nerve" to not give into the obvious scummy tactic of taking a domain name just to extort money from it.
- jbverschoor 6y agoWB should add a post-credits scene with somethings about the jam :-)
- CivBase 6y agoThis is hilarious. Unfortunately for them, the movie industry has discovered there's more money in rebooting a nostalgic franchise than adding a sequel, so there will probably never be a "Space Jam 2". I wonder what their jam tastes like and if it's actually profitable.
- dbbk 6y agoYou know it’s being made right?
- yuchi 6y agoIt’s not a sequel, it’s a reboot. It is not marketed as Soace Jam 2
- capableweb 6y agoIt is definitely a sequel to Space Jam. Just because it doesn't have a number in the title doesn't mean it's not a sequel.
- nvrspyx 6y agoIt's hard to say. It doesn't really seem to have any connection to the original Space Jam, other than the Looney Tunes. In the original, MJ joined with the Tunes to play against aliens, hence the "Space" in Space Jam. Space Jam: A New Legacy takes place in a virtual world. In the original, the Looney Tunes actually existed on Earth, but in this new one, it seems that they exist in the virtual world. I'd say we have to see if there's any other connection to the original film other than the name and Looney Tunes.
- someperson 6y agoThe term is "soft reboot" [1]. It's a common tactic used very widely. See Jurassic World (Jurassic Park), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (SW: A New Hope), X-Men First Class (X-Men 1/2/3), the new Jumanji films etc etc. [1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoftReboot https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoftReboot
- dbbk 6y agoUnfortunately it looks like WB are just reusing the original spacejam.com
- Ansil849 6y agoI don't understand the point of this. It's trying to play it straight to be able to legitimately claim it's a 'Space Jam Recipe #2' website, but the videos and copy are full of little snide commentary about how the website is perfect for someone's movie business, which makes it seem pretty clear that they're knowingly taking a WB trademark for their site name... ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy [1] states that one of the qualifiers for an applicable domain dispute is if the domain is being used in bad faith, and this clearly is. [1] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-02-25-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-02-25-en
- Waterluvian 6y agoI think they're having fun. I think this is one of those times where it's not about money.
- aprex 6y agoIt’s stated on their website, it’s just PR. “ JAM COMPANY TROLLS WARNER BROS BY NABBING 'SPACEJAM2.COM' URL AND OFFERING IT FOR $1M” ... The idea behind the trolling is a collaboration between advertising creative Hunter Fine and commercial film director Peter Marquis, who have a history of creating viral pop culture. “ https://www.spacejam2.com/press-kit https://www.spacejam2.com/press-kit
- Ansil849 6y agoYes, but by actively admitting that they trolling, they are opening themselves up to WB just going to ICANN and filing a dispute to get the domain.
- degenerate 6y agoThat's the point of the troll. Wasting either their braincells -or- their time/money. Sounds like a successful troll to me.
- Ansil849 6y ago
- asyncscrum 6y agoI do appreciate how you can just add the million dollar website to your cart.
- spamalot159 6y agoIn this thread -- A bunch of people who don't understand humor or advertising firms. This is basically a portfolio piece for this ad firm, and quite a good one I'd say. >"The idea behind the trolling is a collaboration between advertising creative Hunter Fine and commercial film director Peter Marquis, who have a history of creating viral pop culture."
- Asraelite 6y agoHas anyone actually bought the jam? I assume it isn't, but if it was actually made to somehow look more "space-like" that would be pretty cool.
- prepend 6y agoI bought some jam for $17.99 shipped. Now I wait six weeks. Their viral marketing campaign worked.
- jbverschoor 6y agoThey might make that 1M off of jams
- avip3d 6y agowhat about space jam too or space jam two dot com
- divbzero 6y agoWould Apple Pay really work for a $1,000,000 purchase? Anyone up for giving it a try and reporting back to HN?
- codetrotter 6y agoI have Apple Pay, I can try. Just send me the equivalent amount of that in Bitcoin first :^)
- sushiburps 6y agoSome additional context from the advertising agency behind this: http://www.hunterfine.com/space-jam-recipe-2 http://www.hunterfine.com/space-jam-recipe-2
- jbaber 6y ago"email us at spacejamrecipe2@gmail.com" Is redirecting e-mail from your domain hard or expensive or something?
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- atom_sgt 6y agoIf this cost us spacejam.com, I will be more than a little bit sad.
- atom_sgt 6y agoI am more than a little bit sad that the original spacejam.com is now gone. It was nice to glance at the web as it used to be from time to time.