[neurobashing]

Industry rules preventing beers, bands, and actors from having the same name seem sort-of strange, until you get into technology.

Which is weird bc we all fret about "namespace pollution" but see no problem with calling something Vine after the last thing called Vine is still in the zeigeist enough that people say "I miss Vine" from time to time.

[JadeNB]

> Which is weird bc we all fret about "namespace pollution" but see no problem with calling something Vine after the last thing called Vine is still in the zeigeist enough that people say "I miss Vine" from time to time.

Well, who's going to do anything about it if we do have a problem? No one's in a position to rein Amazon in on its clearly abusive behavior in important domains; who both wants to and is able to regulate what it calls its services?

[sn_master]

Also, people maintaining websites don't care about updating their description. I got quite confused for a while.

Screenshot taken less than a minute ago:

https://imgur.com/a/8MFLAvN

[marcus_holmes]

Hardly strange territory for Amazon - they got into an argument about domain names with the actual river they're named after.

[Finnucane]

So we should namespace our product name usage? make sure you refer to Amazon: Vine and not Vine: Vine or even Grape: Vine.