Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website
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Carlos Ghosn's background is Maronite Christian.
It's old news anyway, very well-known. I'm always surprised when stuff like this comes up on news sites, I tend to forget the web is full of goddamn kids these days ;)
Yeah, they wouldn't know a Fuzzball if it bit them on the ass, and nobody knows the true meaning of Flag Day anymore (uh, either of them).
"This domain is not for sale."
I'm sure Valve could drop a ton of money to aquire that domain.
Maybe they should get nissan.co lmao. Wait, nissan.co leads to Mazda. Hmm, it's not immediately clear to me what the relationship between nissan and mazda is.
Edit: nevermind, it seems to take you to a random car related destination. After checking it out further the dntx.com domain takes you to mazda first, then some other car search site, then finally a site with an empty template.
How many of those people actually decided to buy a Toyota because the Nissan site didn't load on the first try? I think people overestimate how much a domain name matters.
First thing I see on nissan.com is a massive "Nissan's motor lawsuite against us" with crossed Nissan logos and "it could happen to you too", then a massive ad below this. Doesn't Nissan have a case that not only he doesn't respect his side of the bargain but he's obviously using Nissan's popularity for his own benefit?
"Injunctive relief may not restrain Nissan Computer from placing links on nissan.com and nissan.net to other sites that post negative commentary about Nissan Motor; to this extent, the relief granted is overbroad, reaches non-commercial speech, and runs afoul of the FTDA and the First Amendment."
Source: Last page of http://www.citizen.org/documents/CourtofAppealsRulingNissanM...
<form name="menuform4">
<p>
<select name="menu4"
onChange="window.open(menuform4.menu4.options[menuform4.menu4.selectedIndex].value);
return false;">
<option value="http://www.nissan.com" selected>People's Opinions </option>
<option value="http://www.digest.com/people/page_1.shtml">Page 1</option>
<option value="http://www.digest.com/people/page_2.shtml">Page 2</option>
<option value="http://www.digest.com/people/page_3.shtml">Page 3</option>
(Snipped about 500 lines)
<option value="http://www.digest.com/people/page_503.shtml">page 503</option>
<option value="http://www.digest.com/people/page_504.shtml">page 504</option>
<option value="http://www.digest.com/people/page_505.shtml">page 505</option>
</select>
</form>
</font></strong></b>
</td>
</tr>
</table>Must be Varnish, Nginx, CDN edge servers, sprites, gzip, pre-fetching and efficient CSS selectors.
Though back in the day, I thought using form dropdown lists for page navigation was cool too. Of course I never had 500+ pages either.. and I got over it.
That or spend millions and a decade on lawsuits that lead nowhere...
Neither of those would be sufficient. The decisive factor is that he's actually operating a legitimate business under that name.
* The domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights;
* The registrant does not have any rights or legitimate interests in the domain name; and
* The registrant registered the domain name and is using it in "bad faith".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Res...
So, for example, a personal site with a few family photos of someone called Nissan, or whose nickname is Nissan, or who just liked the word, would not be infringing, so they couldn't take it away, correct?
Now, if Mr. Nissan started doing something like setting up a car forum and reviews on his site, he would get into very dangerous territory.
Right now (at least for me) nissan.com has an advertisement for an insurance agency that sells car insurance. I would say that is about as close as Mr. Nissan can come to blurring the line to car.
They could if they could convince the UDRP panel that the "personal site with a few family photos" is just a sham and the the domain holder's true intention is to extort as much money as possible from Nissan.
It's a bit like Google AdWords - some choose to bid on their own brand keywords, but are they actually gaining incremental visitors, or just spending budget on acquiring traffic that would otherwise arrived for free anyway?
"Mr. Nissan,
I congratulate you, and thank you, for your perseverance in standing up for what is honorable and legitimate, for each of us and our children. NMC's attempt to leverage their size and importance (as it is the Asian way), will not be tolerated. I will post your information for everyone I know to read and boycott their products."
Boycott! Wow.
After reading several such posts, I wonder if the posters realize that Nissan has factories in the U.S.
Someday, I speculate that the current nissan.com will be subject to a cyber attack in a case of mistaken (or "mistaken") identity. What goes around, comes around.
So, while Mr. Nissan has the rights of "first dibs," he should realize that real damage is being done, and that he is fanning flames that do not speak to the "better angels of our nature."
Edit: Here's the original PR...
http://web.archive.org/web/20000510174513/http://www.ncchelp...
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Clicking through the website, I don't find it unbelievable that this is a DIY website of a local computer shop. There are tons of small business websites like this out there, and while they don't inspire a sense of legitimacy in people unfamiliar with their store front, it's not a problem for those that are.
Well, that was my first impression anyway. There's an address on the website that points to a residential area, not a commercial area. If the was an actual storefront they probably wouldn't do that: http://goo.gl/qkT4l (maps.google.com). Still, if the website is bringing in enough money to live on, a lot of small website owners tend not to keep up with current best practices, and the site was created in 1994. It looks to be of its era, I would say.
Works better than quite a few small UK PC shop Web sites! I'm determined to buy what will probably be my last desktop (simply because of the increasing utility of laptops/tablets) soon[1] and would like to buy one from a small business locally.
Good heavens, they all need to find undergraduates who will code for parts or something! I suppose if you are running the business and the Web site generates sales, you just leave it ticking...
[1] soon=when gas/phone/water/sewage/council tax bills paid but before they all get locked down and limited to vendor OS.
Why would you do that?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage#Versions
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2095210/How-Google-Make...
maximum $54.91 per click back in 2011.
Since then, the ranking has been taken over by mesothelioma lawyers.
http://www.spyfu.com/TopList.aspx?listId=3
$370.53 per click.
If I type the word nissan into the address bar on IE, firefox, chrome or opera I get a page full of links to the motor company.
This article is saying "The web is important! Nissan Motor Company wants to own nissan.com!"
No shit.
Meanwhile, the site that OP's article was posted on is "the course website for the suite of law & technology courses at Yale University offered by Elizabeth Stark and Brad Rosen" (which is apparently CPSC 183, 184, 185 at Yale University). Publish date of the piece was 2011. So as far as sources go, I'm not sure how much better you could get than this. Not even a single ad, and right under 500 words, which is a nice size for a short take on the subject.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan#Nissan_Motor_Co_v._Nissa...
It has cost Nissan Computer $3M to defend itself? For a local PC repair shop? Either he's highly principled or just lying.
"Hey did you know Nissan Motors doesn't own nissan.com?"
"They don't? Wow."
Everything about it is obvious. It's providing no content. The fact that the site has no ads and is made by reputable people means nothing. It's still just an old (and very simple) story with no new information or insight added.
The reason you're not finding much/anything out there is like I said this story started in the '90s, everybody already knows about it except people who weren't around then, and even so, there's not much to tell.
This is an anecdote, not an informative article.