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I set up a site around 20 years ago - now on https://whatisbifidusregularis.org/ https://whatisbifidusregularis.org/ - and got threatened with a lawsuit by Dann
by frereubu 2y ago
I set up a site around 20 years ago - now on https://whatisbifidusregularis.org/ https://whatisbifidusregularis.org/ - and got threatened with a lawsuit by Dannon / Danone. I had to give them the first domain because it was a trademark (but not before I'd set up a 301 redirect and let Google catch up with the change). That was in more innocent pre-DCMA times when corporations wouldn't really know how to contact an ISP and get something banned without getting lawyers involved. I enjoyed a realtively long email correspondence with what I hope was a very expensive lawyer from Danone.
Edit: I set up the site on bifidusdigestivum.com after getting too irritated by adverts where they talked about their amazing bacteria "Bifidus Digesivum", which was just so ridiculous I found out as much as I could about it and wrote about it in as SEO-friendly a way as possible so anyone searching for it found my site. It's had something like 1.5m views since then, and still gets 400-500 visits a month. Not huge in the grand scheme of things, but it still gives me a chuckle every now and then when I remember it.
- lemarchr 2y agoThe comments section gives me intense astroturfing vibes, especially the way it abruptly starts and stops between 2014. Edit: Although the negative comments stop too. Maybe people were just more passionate about yoghurt a decade ago.
- frereubu 2y agoYeah, it was kind of weird - pretty sure the positive comments about it weren't organic, but there are some other anti comments that didn't feel quite right either. I'm not even sure if the comment section works any more!