How did Facebook (aka Meta) aquire the name/domain "threads"?
How did Facebook (aka Meta) aquire the name/domain "threads"?
Isn't this a very common phrase? Surely, someone already thought about this?
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At least they're willing to use their buttload of money acquire the domain, unlike Nissan and what they did to nissan.com owner.
Could you elaborate, please?
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
Interesting
Why the hell washe not awarded his whole fees? Maybe the jury didn't think he'd been spending that much money? Well what an annoying outcome.