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0 pointscroes3y ago0 comments

In Germany Nissan Motors would have got the domain.

According to german law "A private person with that name had priority over someone not called that. A company of that name, or a company with a registered trademark has precedence over a person of that name. A city or municipality has the highest precedence"

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askvictor3y ago· 1 in thread

It's easy to forget that the com in .com is a shortening 'commercial' - i.e. a commercial enterprise. In Australia, (until relatively recently I think), a .com.au domain was restricted to registered businesses. For individuals, there is (was?) an id.au domain.

prepend3y ago

If I remember correctly, Uzi Nissan was a consultant practicing under his own name and Nissan.com was registered as a commercial site for his business.

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