In 1999, a boy named Uzi Nissan turned down an offer from Nissan Motor Company to buy the domain called Nissan.com, which he used for his electronics company Nissan Computer. Nissan (the automaker) then attempted to bring the contractor’s dominance to court, triggering a multi-year legal war that Uzi said charged him $3 million. But in the end, it was the great Nissan that subsidized, and Nissan.com remained Uzi’s asset, which reused the site to count its confrontation with the company’s giant. However, in recent weeks, Nissan.com has darkened, and this is possibly because Uzi unfortunately lost his life due to COVID-19.
Uzi’s death was announced through a GoFundMe campaign, which was presented through the circle of surviving relatives on Saturday, July 18. Nissan extended to his relatives that he will also use the entire earned budget to cover the medical expenses resulting from Uzi’s combat in opposition to COVID-19. about funding higher education for their children. To that end, it raised just over $15,000 at the time of this article.
Nissan.com Archived Home Page
The former businessman’s hard-won website appears to have gone offline some time since July 10, which is when its home page was most recently archived on Wayback Machine. A tech-savvy DIYer, Uzi Nissan’s site may have been self-hosted and in his absence, any server problems may have temporarily (or permanently) brought the site down. Regardless of what caused the site’s outage, a statement issued to The Drive by Nissan (Motor Company) suggests a domain takeover is likely not in the automaker’s plans.
“Nissan North America has established NissanUSA.com as our home page in the United States,” said Dan Passe, Director of Corporate Communications at Nissan North America. “Most consumer brands through marketing messages, online searches or social media, and NissanUSA.com are easily identified through those channels.”
Jalopnik published an exceptional feature on Uzi’s constant back-and-forth with Nissan corporate in 2018. It’s worth a read in full as it depicts his strong-willed nature, immigrating from Israel to the United States some 40 years ago and becoming a self-made businessman who took on an auto giant.
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h/t Jalopnik
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