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See also http://nissan.com/ http://nissan.com/ Background here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Computer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik

• Mordisquitos 4y ago
  Another one that used to amuse me every time I mistook its domain for that of the magazine was http://www.theeconomist.com http://www.theeconomist.com, but I see it is now long gone. Here is an Archive link for reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20130119083638/http://www.theeconomist.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130119083638/http://www.theeco...
• thrdbndndn 4y ago
  http://steam.com/ http://steam.com/ used to be similar, but apparently they sold out later. I guess nothing is permanent. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20161013203919/http://www.steam.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161013203919/http://www.steam.... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20220730090724/http://www.steam.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220730090724/http://www.steam.... (The site is offline at the moment.)
  • smcl 4y ago
    I think this is a good example of how if your desired username/domain is already taken, there’s usually a clever tweak you can do to get a similar one that works. In the case of Steam they went with “steampowered.com” instead. It makes me wonder why so many people go with like “firstname225” rather than spending a couple of minutes coming up with something little bit less silly-looking. In fact there was a funny thing for a while where a user iterated through all the @kevin(number) Twitter users every Friday: https://www.gawker.com/5895578/weird-internets-how-one-man-is-getting-to-know-every-kevin-on-twitter https://www.gawker.com/5895578/weird-internets-how-one-man-i...
    • pcai 4y ago
      There are like 8 billion humans alive at any given moment though, so this trick doesn’t scale for usernames. “Just be a little creative” has been extremely unlikely to work for years now at say…gmail
• theyknowitsxmas 4y ago
  Wow... can't afford to drop $100MM on a guy for a domain on $6BB net? Dicks.