Isn’t this a very common phrase? Surely, someone already thought about this?

    • TrontheTechie@infosec.pub
      112·
      1 year ago

      You just know someone bought that domain hoping to turn it into a gangbusters online clothes retailer and the best they could manage to do is camp on it and sell it.

      Could’ve been Bezos, instead was a bozo.

      • Polydextrous@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        Were they a bozo, though? If they sold that domain to FB, there is a great chance they just banked like gangbusters.

        • TrontheTechie@infosec.pub
          12·
          1 year ago

          I suppose it depends on your outlook. I’d rather have had the passive income over time paid in stock options that multiply in value that I can get interest free loans against to file tax losses than the one time payout you have to pay gains on.

          Hindsight is 20/20

          Edit to add: there’s also a non zero chance that Meta swooped in like Disney did to Central Florida, set up a secret shell company to buy the property under value so no one knows what big business is behind the acquisition.

    • restarossa@infosec.pub
      2·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t this something else though? Meta’s is .net isn’t it? So even they couldn’t get the .com…

      edit: Indeed it’s nothing to do with Meta, though it seems kinda related. Bit surprised Meta went with the name actually.

      • Silver Golden@lemmy.brendan.ie
        1·
        1 year ago

        ah ye are right, I briefly checked out .com and it seemed to roughly match

        .net was registered in 1997 so the same roughly still applies

      • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com
        181·
        1 year ago

        Nissan Motors v. Nissan Computer

        In 1980, Uzi Nissan founded Nissan Foreign Car, an automobile service, in Raleigh, North Carolina.[9][10] In 1987, Uzi Nissan founded Nissan International, Ltd, an import/export company that traded primarily in heavy equipment and computers.[11] On 14 May 1991, Uzi Nissan founded Nissan Computer Corporation, which provides sales and service of personal computers, servers, and computer parts, as well as internet hosting and development. Nissan Computer registered nissan.com for its use on 4 June 1994, five years prior to Nissan Motor Corporation’s interest in the domain.[10][2]

        Nissan Motors considered Nissan Computer’s use of the name to be trademark dilution, and laid claim to the domain by alleging cyber squatting. However, Nissan Computer was named after its owner, Uzi Nissan.[13][14][15] Following the outcome of the case, Nissan Motors uses the name nissanusa.com for its U.S. website.

        Uzi Nissan died in 2020 due to covid and the website is now no more, but it used to contains his account abut Nissan suing him for the domain and he spent years and about a million dollar to defend himself. He won and Nissan was ordered to pay $50,000 for his trouble, so he was furious. More details can be found in the internet archive snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20190608101443/https://www.digest.com/Big_Story.php

  • AaronMaria
    4·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, and if they could stop using established terms for their BS like “Metaverse” that would be great.

  • DeriHunter@lemmy.world
    51·
    1 year ago

    I don’t understand something else - why every article say that threads us a Twitter rival if meta themselves say it’s a slack competitor and it’s an exact copy of slack

    Edit: oh OK that’s what op was talking about. Turns out there’s already an app called thread which is slack copycat and was created before meta’s threads lmao what a shitshow