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Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 89 points 11 months ago (6 children)

We had no intention of making/hosting a website with the trademark. The company was in agreement.

After we got it, the bossman comes to me and says "so we can make this email addresses now, right?"

Like, duuude... It's not his expertise, I know, but he thought web pages and email was totally separate systems.

Anyway, that was almost 25 years ago. All water under the bridge.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Sounds like you fucked up, tbh, you should've bought the domain even if not intending to use it, just for brand safety

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I couldn't agree more.

    I spent almost a year getting my ducks in a row to sue and reclaim the domain

    The cost in time and resources for all of that, vs just registering the domain in the first place. 🙄

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    We burned a lot of midnight oil on that company. It was a early data analytics type venture that was fun, but had a lot of long nights. We had an ethical spin from the ground up which, in hindsight, is not really the direction the Internet wanted to take.

    It was a great bunch of folks though. We keep in touch now and then.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Haha! Yeah we sure did.

    It was a small startup in, gosh, 1999-2000 when the net was a new frontier. Lessons were learned. It's since been acquired and folded into other businesses. The domain is still in my name with a very basic static page.

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