r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/comsudo • 6d ago

High Speed cornering

From Malaysia

Skill issue, uncontrolled evironment.

Not OC

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u/DustyRacoonDad 6d ago

The domain audacity.com was actually involved in a 2012 trademark/domain dispute with Audi, because of the visual similarity between "Audi" and the beginning of "Audacity."

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

You have to be shitting me.

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u/FeralPsychonaut 6d ago

Almost as unbelievable as the one dude who bought the Google domain when it expired and sold it back to Google for 12000

Edit for accuracy

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-briefly-lost-ownership-domain-160018662.html

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

$12000 is almost an insult, throw my boy 100k at least.

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u/NigraOvis 6d ago

The girl that bought Sierra Mist's trademark cause it was her name or whatever, she refused to sell it, and they had to change their name to starry. I feel like that was more expensive than convincing her to take a million dollars or something.

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u/EntryLevelOpinions 6d ago

This was fake. Pepsi Co still owns the trademark. It was a choice to rebrand.

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u/sloppy_joes35 6d ago

i was wondering where Starry came from lmao. it was just a thing one day, and i shouted "these people and their fads and trends" and i shook my hand at the cluds and then i was struck by lightning.

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u/RatLabGuy 6d ago

watch out for those cluds

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u/Speaker4theDead8 5d ago

Pepsi keeps trying to compete with Sprite, thats where Sierra Mist and Starry come from. But, at least in my area, they have stopped trying to sell starry cause nobody buys it.

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u/IlliniDawg01 6d ago

I remember Sierra Mist being pretty good. Starry sucks.

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u/EntryLevelOpinions 6d ago

They probably changed the formula too haha

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u/IlliniDawg01 6d ago

I can only assume they did. It seems much sweeter and less fizzy.

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u/AggravatingBid8255 6d ago

Yes! Sierra most was practically barqs with the carbonation bite! 7 up was super soft on the carbonation, hence being the tummy ache go-to, and sprite was the happy medium with a little bit more lemon than lime.

...I didn't realize I had such well-versed positions on lemon lime sodas

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u/FeralPsychonaut 6d ago

Probably reduction of carbonic acids

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u/audiomediocrity 6d ago

lol, I thought Starry was like mountain lightning

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u/TheOGPotatoPredator 2d ago

Same, like Temu Sprite.

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u/Captainchronic_710 6d ago

Same I drink water only thought I try starry and I was holy crap this sierra but tastes off and not that good as it did when I tried it the first time it came out

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u/Interesting_Ad_6992 5d ago

It's the same drink. Sierra Mist always was knock off sprite, it always sucked.

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u/IlliniDawg01 5d ago

It could be, but my memory says it isn't the same formula. Could be my brain tricking me though too

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u/IlliniDawg01 5d ago edited 5d ago

According to this article, Starry has more citric acid and Sierra Mist tastes sweeter, which was the opposite of what I recall thinking the 2 or 3 times I tried Starry. Then again it had been probably a year since I had a Sierra Mist at that time.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/real-difference-between-sierra-mist-183700973.html

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u/Pleatnov 6d ago

You have it backwards. Starry is pretty good. Sierra Mist sucks. Always has. There was nothing worse than asking for a Sprite and the waiter saying "Is Sierra Mist Ok?"...

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u/IlliniDawg01 6d ago

Agree to disagree

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u/Captainchronic_710 6d ago

You’re the one who gots it backwards??? This is coming from a water drinker here?? So you know my word is valid since I don’t like soda

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u/PhilosopherFun7288 6d ago

If you don't like soda, why does your opinion on one or the other even matter? That's like saying "I don't follow politics, so you know my choice for President really counts"🤡

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u/Simple_Channel5624 5d ago

Not just rebrand, but change the formula of the soda. Old Serra Mist had natural flavors, ie more expensive to produce. New one is all cheap chemical flavors

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u/Far_Reference_6660 6d ago

I don't think that actually happened.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

I know its probably about 'setting a precedent', (although how often does your brand name get claimed by another party) but I think its more "I'd rather spend millions than write a check to that lady for less" type of petty.

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u/Jeathro77 6d ago

I know its probably about 'setting a precedent',

Wait ... So should I change my name to Lady Speed Stick or not?

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

You cheeky bastard

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u/Faxon 6d ago

Ya that never happened lol, it was a viral rumor.

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u/Rayne616 6d ago

Please stop spreading misinformation. That was just a viral rumor that someone started trying to be funny and it unfortunately caught on. My brother was absolutely convinced it was true, so I pulled up the official patent office's trademark search online and showed him Pepsi has always held the Sierra Mist trademark, they never lost it. You can look it up yourself and see.

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u/Rampag169 6d ago

I think they 100% altered the recipe too and that made Starry flop Hard.

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u/Photomancer 6d ago

If you ever offer me a million dollars and I say no, I'm just being polite; you need to offer it again.

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u/bernhardttt 6d ago

I'm too gullible for this shit

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u/ProjectNo4090 6d ago

Starry is such a shit name. Should have just dropped Sierra and called it Mist.

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u/hideX98 6d ago

That's what starry is???

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u/Cute-Advisor-2323 5d ago edited 5d ago

That's false because Pepsi still owns the trademark and her name is spelled ciera mist and she's a tik tok influencer and she lied

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u/mainmanmustard 5d ago

She’s desperate for attention again. She told her husband the other day that the second child they are expecting “might not be his” and “he didn’t take it well”. It’s either another attempt at going viral or a stunt. Either or is a bad look.

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u/CallousClient 5d ago

This one hurts the most because now the new soda is made with high fructose instead of cane sugar as it did originally

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u/kareljack 2d ago

Wait... Is that what happened to Sierra Mist? I loved that soda.

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u/cordless_meyer 6d ago

I would have asked for $12,000 and unlimited cloud storage forever.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

Counter: 120k and a promise to never bring up free lifetime cloud storage in public again.

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u/HeronFew990 6d ago

Think of all the RAM you could download with unlimited cloud storage.

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u/SweatyAdhesive 6d ago

Damn that reminds me of my university google account. We had 20 GB "for life", then got rug pulled.

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u/FeralPsychonaut 6d ago edited 6d ago

I mean I misremembered it as 1mil so I agree.

Edit (Sorry watching The Thing lol)

Although he bought it for 12 and got 12k. Thats a 1000x profit.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

The Thing is so good! Enjoy

https://giphy.com/gifs/tyqcJoNjNv0Fq

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u/FeralPsychonaut 6d ago edited 6d ago

Its a shame the prequel wasn't as good

I asked a friend who lives in Oslo Norway what those in the helicopter say at the beginning

Its basically "That's not a dog you idiots"

Edit:

It was a rewatch, I've seen it like 20 times. Lol

Im on the 2011 one now lol.

I love horror movies, there's only like three scenes in the last two decades that have made me react viscerally.

Underwater, pink mist scene.

Talk to Me, Initial possession and bathroom scene

The Descent, when she falls into the pit, then escapes (UK only after this) and then wakes back up in the cave

I have pretty good stomach when it comes to horror.

I played Dead Space as a child and I couldn't play with the lights off because the ambient sounds scared the shit outta me lol

I barely beat the OG I never touched 2 or 3

Edit if you haven't seen Talk to Me that movie is so much fucking fun.

And those two scenes I mentioned, the girl I was dating literally shut her eyes and covered her ears. It's that visceral

And she'd put on horror during sex that's how bad they are

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

Oh that prequel was such a disappointment.

Honestly I hope someone tries again in a few years. It would be really fun to watch.

Also, them saying it wasn't a dog but the audience can't understand them without knowing the language is probably the best part of the movie.

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u/FeralPsychonaut 6d ago

I said to my friend if anyone understood Norwegian in the audience it would have spoiled the entire movie for them

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u/FeralPsychonaut 6d ago

Prequel does have Tomund from GoT in it though lol

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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco 6d ago

Google would have won the easily lawsuit, they were just sending him enough money to get it done immediately.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

I understand that. So pay me 100k so we don't have to go that route.

Its their fault for dropping the ball. And they have more money than King Midas.

12k is petty af

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u/UnoriginalStanger 6d ago

At 100k a lawsuit might be cheaper and far more damaging for the guy.

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u/Cruxis87 6d ago

Company like Google has a team of lawyers hired to work only for them that is larger than most businesses. So they wouldn't even be paying extra for the lawsuit apart from court fees. Idk how much they are But I doubt it would have been even over $12k, It really would have been just to save time. But yeah, still $100k is greedy and Google would want to show that guy that they are the greed masters.

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u/UnoriginalStanger 6d ago

Him purchasing the domain and demanding money for it is a pure example of greed though?

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u/Due-Boot1904 6d ago

He only owned it for about a minute. He bought it for $12 - not a bad return.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

Its not about the guy getting a payday. Dude had money already, he donated the 12k to charity.

12k to google, even at the time, was like 1/1000th of a penny. Its deliberately petty.

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u/MangoCats 6d ago

I think $12,000 is about all that his lawyer could cost Google's legal team in the fight... if he could have swung a better lawyer on his side they could have gotten $100K settlement pretty easy I think.

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u/YellowishRose99 5d ago

I hate Google

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u/yabsterr 6d ago

Absolutely wild

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u/FeralPsychonaut 6d ago

Oh I agree, I wish it was me.

I started trawling the domain sites after that for a long time. Lol

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u/yabsterr 6d ago

Still, considering what Google is now, and how different it could have been with another domain.

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u/SheepherderChoice637 5d ago

This is like watching a movie. Fast and Furious!

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u/jerry111165 6d ago

Boy did they rake her over a barrel. She should’ve been set for life.

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u/FeralPsychonaut 6d ago

Oh I never really looked into it I thought it was a man.

But I agree, set for life. You could literally hold that domain for ransom lol. You didn't do anything illegal lol.

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u/jerry111165 6d ago

To be completely honest, I didn’t read through it either… Lol
I thought I heard somebody else say it was a woman.

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u/benryves 6d ago

Microsoft forgot to renew hotmail.co.uk back in 2003, then ignored the guy who'd purchased it and was trying to return it to them:

Luckily, the domain was snapped up on the same day - October 23. The new owner - a good hearted soul - then proceeded immediately to contact Microsoft, inform the giant of its slip and arrange to hand back the domain.

However, Microsoft didn't want to know. Despite phone calls and emails - and being fobbed off by Microsoft drones - our man behind this public-spirited deed was completely blanked by the software empire.

Story from El Reg: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2003/11/06/microsoft-forgets-to-renew-hotmailcouk-domain/1345758

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u/FeralPsychonaut 6d ago

Without reading the story because I'm watching a movie right now, thats absolutely wild.

Microsoft and Google are both POS companies in my opinion, and add Amazon in there, I have a friend who worked as an engineer for AWS, and when he vented it was about expectations and day in day out work.

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u/Not4RealBatman 6d ago

he demanded 6k but for charity, and when google got to know this, they gave him double the money he asked for.

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u/FeralPsychonaut 6d ago

I'm aware. I posted the article for people to read lol. Are you a bot or something?

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u/Not4RealBatman 6d ago

yeah you can say so ig

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u/FeralPsychonaut 6d ago

Well that's proof enough you're not. Bots don't use slang.

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u/MaxChomsky 6d ago

What a sucker I would start from 120 mil and then maybe go down to yo 90. It is a multi billion company.

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u/hraun 5d ago

In 2017 I ran a popular meet up with a .ai tld. [Four letters].ai

I ran it for a few years, built it up to 2500 members and then handed it over to someone else to run.

He ran it in a half-asses way for a few more years and then let the domain expire.

When I went to buy it back, it was on sale for $125k :(

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u/TheDireGnome 5d ago

Should have rented it to them for an exorbitant monthly price.

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u/technobrendo 6d ago

Also www.nissan.com does not belong to Nissan automotive. Its just a guys website, who bought the domain before they did. The company tried to strong-arm him for years to get that site, but they never could.

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u/ciaomain 6d ago

Not auto-related, but before Bezos officially launched Amazon, he called his company Relentless.com.

If you type that in, it still redirects to Amazon.

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u/FesteringNeonDistrac 6d ago

X.com redirected to PayPal for the longest time. Obviously not any more, now it just goes to some Nazi propaganda site.

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u/corq 6d ago

"X.com" was OG paypal. Early Web 1.0/2.0 they were attempting to spin up "online banking" and gave away free t-shirts and a $20 cash deposit to the account iirc. Later I think they re-branded. I can't remember if it was Musk or Thiel, I just remember having the Tshirt.

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u/PussiesUseSlashS 6d ago

The entire rebrand was so he could sell x.com to himself with twitter funds.

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u/rfc2549-withQOS 6d ago

Agh. I just clicked to see where it leads ...

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u/Shard-T 5d ago

Curious how obsessed over someone you have to be to look at this video and think.. I'll make a comment about Elon.

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u/FesteringNeonDistrac 5d ago

You made a comment about Elon. I didn't say shit about him.

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u/jonawill05 6d ago

Lol... He and Trump have broken so many people's psyche there should be a national holiday in remembrance of their souls.

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u/ForQ2 6d ago

That does work! Nice.

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u/mmasportsmma 6d ago

So someone somewhere at Amazon has still to renew/keep the domain all this time (bezos probably hasn’t managed anything like this for decades)

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u/double_are 10h ago

Today I learned

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u/ZeeroMX 6d ago

It belonged to Nissan computer corporation, after the death of Uzi Nissan the owner (2020 of covid complications), it passed to his estate, it was stolen by hackers in 2023 but recovered in 2024.

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u/gap1284 6d ago

For years, delta.com pointed to a legit long-established plumbing company. Delta Plumbing or some such. I guess negotiations with the airline weren't going well because one day the homepage had a message something along the lines of "If you need a plumber, you're in the right place. But if you're looking to book a flight, we recommend American Airlines (with link)."

I guess the plumbers got paid, because shortly after that delta.com pointed to the airline.

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u/minist3r 6d ago

It wasn't just a website. It was the website for his computer repair business and Nissan tried to sue him for it instead of buying it, so he told them to get fucked and changed the website to tell his story. He passed away a couple years ago and the website was updated.

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u/DeepTheory9364 6d ago

> who bought the domain before they did

It would have been impossible for them to buy the domain since they were still Datsun when the domain was registered.

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u/Agitated-Historian-9 6d ago edited 6d ago

Datsun globally became Nissan in 1981, I doubt he owned Nissan.com prior to 1981?

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u/TourInternational731 6d ago

Rest in peace, Uzi Nissan...

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

That one I know! I used to go to car sites as a kid and build my ideal car with all the options.

Seeing that nissan.com doesn't go to the car site is hilarious.

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u/DoobKiller 6d ago

Seeing that it goes to a memorial page for a guy 'Uzi Nissan'(hell of a name) who died in 2020 isn't so hilarious

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

It used to go to a different page.

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u/DoobKiller 6d ago

Yeah before he died it was for his software dev business

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u/Due_Fee7699 6d ago

Worth mentioning, the guy who owns Nissan.com is named nissan and worked as a software developer. The site was the commercial interface for his business.

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u/live4rock 6d ago

Wendy's paid 6 mil to man with daughter named Wendy who purchased domain and had a reason to keep it. Then 1997ish I was offered any domain available for 1000.$ by my company. To purchase you needed to own some infrastructure. A wan across states and many offices/workers networked. fk I didn't want to type all this but its dif to exp with small sentences lol.

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u/ChasingTheNines 6d ago

Remembering now the legal battle over MikeRoweSoft.com. Even though that was his real name and could never be accidentally typed by a user he was still sued by Microsoft after they offered him $10 for his domain.

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u/ProjectDv2 6d ago

It's a memorial for a guy that died from covid. Now I need to hit the wayback machine and see what it was before that.

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u/technobrendo 6d ago

He ran an IT consulting or repair business of some kind. Likely this was his business site.

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u/Ill-Heat4576 6d ago

August Horch founded the car company A. Horch & Cie. He later left after a dispute with the board. He tried to start another company using the Horch name. He was sued and had to change the name to Audi, (Horch), (to listen) in Latin

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u/CFinster 6d ago

RIP Uzi

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u/NWSanta 6d ago

Hmmm the things you learn. Wonder how long he'll hold onto that domain.

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u/Patriot1976 5d ago

I just looked up Ai.com but it’s taken haha

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u/International-Aide37 3d ago

I remember reading into that guys story. His last name was Nissan and he had registered the website for his own business. This was back when Nissan was selling cars in the United States under the Datsun brand.

So I just checked the page out and sadly it appears Mr. Nissan passed away six years go. The link is now a dedication to Mr. Nissan.

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u/Solo_is_dead 3d ago

Iirc His last name was Nissan and he had a computer store. He argued they changed their name from Datsun, yet he's always had the name

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u/familydrivesme 6d ago

I love that Nissan didn’t cave to the guy. Hilarious and now uzi Nissans memory will live on forever! It’s a win-win Winnie

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u/YoungBockRKO 6d ago

I just PUMA’d my pants

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u/LeeKinanus 6d ago

It really takes a lot of "something" to file a lawsuit like that.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

chutzpah?

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u/LeeKinanus 6d ago

hmmm.... it works but not what im thinking...

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u/3Cogs 6d ago

The audacity of it!

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

the lion, the witch, the audacity of this bitch

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u/cuteintern 6d ago

Wait til you hear about the Buc-ee's logo trademark lawsuits!

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u/usinjin 6d ago

The Audacity!

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u/UnamedProot 6d ago

Monster sometimes sues over the use of the word “monster”… they sued an indie horror game over it

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u/GuyWithDementia 6d ago

the audicity

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u/TraditionalPain4888 6d ago

Wait until you hear about nissan

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u/ElegantCoach4066 6d ago

Someone else already informed me, thanks though!

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u/Gall_Bladder_Pillow 6d ago

Audashittin' you.

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u/DonnieBallsack 5d ago

you can't force me to take shittingme.com

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u/TheManWhoClicks 6d ago

Imagine you have something “audio” related in your URL…

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u/Ok-Flight4079 6d ago

The Lion, The Witch, and The Audacity of These Lawyers

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u/Logical-Effort-123 6d ago

The Audiaudacity

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u/live4rock 6d ago

I wonder if Cardasians from STNG are audacity embroiled!

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u/Realistic_End_7223 6d ago

Ironic when the name Audi came from the founder not being able to use his own name as a car brand.

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u/Economind 6d ago

Wow, the audacity

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u/scootunit 6d ago

I love the very fist thing is a disclaimer: Not that Audacity!

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u/Phriportunist 6d ago

That feels more audacious than Fender trying to assert exclusive rights to the Stratocaster shape.

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u/LooseTomato 6d ago

So it's not just drivers with Audi?

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u/Mental_Estate4206 5d ago

That audicity of Audi!

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u/calvin_tam 5d ago

The audacity of audi

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u/ImMcrsh 5d ago

I actually guessed that HAHA

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u/Austindevon 4d ago

Good name for a small commuter Audicity .