If the guy was serious about reputation appearance, he'd have bought retention.co.jp which requires:

• a Japan registered company
• have an established office
• have a permanent residency visa or G'd forbid, a Japanese partner.
• may have only one .co.jp domain
• it should be close to your company name

Anyone and their mother can own a .com domain name. Which is exactly what happened in this case.

What a cuck!