[waterfowl]

These are the newsletters in question. Looks like a normal niche trade community kind of site.

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/about/

Imagine being a (literally) mom and pop internet newsletter and having a giant come after you personally w/ lots of malice. Reminds me of nissan computer getting arm twisted by the datsun motor company.

[libria]

(Slightly in jest) I was annoyed that minecraft.com doesn't link to the game. It's some random company... that is actually in the craft of real world mining.

I'm surprised Nissan was not able to settle w/ mom and pop. Branding is worth millions. I doubt they were being stingy; were they holding out on principle? Were mom and pop asking for a silly amount?

It's also amusing a North American corporation was able to wrest the .amazon domain away from, well, the real Amazonians in Brazil.

[waterfowl]

Nissan sued the guy(named nissan) for infringement so I think he got pissed. Notably his small computer shop(bearing his name) predated Nissan operating as Nissan(vs. Datsun) in America.

Similar things -- peloton.com is not the smartbike, chopt.com is not the salad place(but a sailboat sales company).

[poyu]

Also MikeRoweSoft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft

[matt-attack]

Why wouldn't the inventor of Peloton have just come up w/ a name for which he could obtain a .com domain name?

[tradertef]

Dropbox was successfully got the domain by suing the original owner. That always bothered me.

[tedunangst]

After the owner filled it with ads for competitors.

[tradertef]

So what? It is his property and he has any right to do so.

[Plough_Jogger]

Chopt appears to sell primarily commercial powerboats.

[awakeasleep]

I was excited to read what articles so touched the nerves of eBay executives- but there is a lot of content on the site.

Anyone find any that were especially critical or funny?

[extrapolate]

Paragraph 18 [1] mentions Executive 1 being upset about an Apr 10th article [2] on their compensation.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/465728291/FBI-Affidavit-agai...

[2] https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2019/4/155...

[refurb]

Good catch! Now it makes sense why the CEO and CTO were involved.

[scottlocklin]

Supposedly Aug 2019;

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/page/18/?s=ebay

Didn't see anything in there which would mess anyone's 'do. Though I suppose they may have removed the "offending" bits? It seems to be a pretty dry newsletter.

[londons_explore]

I assume that the newsletter wasn't the only thing that annoyed the CEO... There are thousands of other sites out there critical of eBay. Why this one? There must be some other reason for the harassment, as yet not unearthed...