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Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by jeffool on Sunday October 02, 2011 @10:44PM (#3064799)
Visit the site; it's owned by a small family-owned computer retailer, and always has been. It's kinda awesome, really, that they've been able to keep it.
Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by dennisgorelik on Sunday October 02, 2011 @11:18PM (#3064884)
What is awesome about it? Why wouldn't they sell it for, say $1M?

Everyone would benefit: current domain owner and Nissan Motors.

Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by sbov on Sunday October 02, 2011 @11:33PM (#3064928)
http://www.digest.com/Big_Story.php

Using simple math Nissan Computers had to spend 2.9 million defending themselves and got recuped 2% of that. $1 million wouldn't even cover the rest of their court costs. Nissan Motors doesn't deserve to benefit from nissan.com in any way. And personally I won't consider a Nissan product ever again.

Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by dennisgorelik on Sunday October 02, 2011 @11:49PM (#3064966)
Then the price tag for nissan.com should be around $10M.

Do you think Nissan Motors is not willing to pay that?

Nissan Motors has more customers than Nissan Computer has. That does not mean that Nissan Motors deserves nissan.com more, but that means that there is a price tag which is beneficial for both these companies.

Most likely both of them are too stubborn to benefit from that transaction.

Edit: why the downvoting?

Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by jeffool on Monday October 03, 2011 @12:22AM (#3065037)
I didn't downvote you (I can't), and this is just a guess, but: Your post probably came off as more dismissive than you intended it.

I mean, Uzi Nissan (or someone on his behalf) legitimately bought the domain Nissan.com. Five years later, the car company sues him. After the slight, he decides to not budge, and now, twelve years later, "eh, just sell it to them" seems a serious understatement of affairs.

"Stubbornness"? Yeah probably. But after more than a decade? There's no way "pay for it" hasn't been considered, and fought over.

Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by felipemnoa on Monday October 03, 2011 @01:58AM (#3065239)
100 million would be OK. 10 million be damned.
Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by veyron on Sunday October 02, 2011 @11:55PM (#3064976)
At this point:

there's enough vested interest in seeing Uzi Nissan win that he wouldn't step down (and yes I donated some of my AllAdvantage revenue to the cause)

And Nissan Motors can't be too happy that nissan.com criticizes the motor company.

The FU price point now is probably much higher than 10M. But another interesting thing happened: auto companies started adding <usa> to the domains. For example, bmw uses bmwusa.com and mercedes benz uses mbusa.com, so a lot of people expect the nissan motors website is nissanusa.com

Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by danssig on Monday October 03, 2011 @10:43AM (#3066463)
I suspect bmw and benz put a "usa" at the end of their name for their US branches since they're German companies that probably sell more cars in Europe (total out-of-thin-air guess).
Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by veyron on Monday October 03, 2011 @11:28AM (#3066623)
For some non-German examples, take toyota (japanese) or kia (korean) or ferrari (italy) or land rover (britain).

Also, daimler sells way more cars in europe, although they are really stripped down compared to the US equivalents (and they also have stuff like sprinter, which I've only started to see recently in the USA). Even though those cars are lower margin, they sell many more (and most of their revenue comes from those cars)

Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by veyron on Sunday October 02, 2011 @10:50PM (#3064808)
No offense, but I think it's kinda strange that you would ask why before you actually looked at the link ...

EDIT: it appears the comment I was replying to was deleted, but it essentially asked Why and was subsequently edited with a remark along the lines of "I should have checked the link"