[kazinator]

In the spirit of testing: Mazda doesn't show cars on their home page. Here is mazda.com:

   Forbidden

   You don't have permission to access / on this server.

You have to add www. to mazda.com before you can see any damn cars.

And it's just one car I see; some fat SUV that looks like it's about to give birth to a pair of sporty twins.

[coldtea]

>You have to add www. to mazda.com before you can see any damn cars.

Who said mazda.com is the homepage, and not www.mazda.com?

[LeoPanthera]

In the USA, Mazda is at mazdausa.com, not mazda.com. There are eight cars on the front page.

[toomanydoubts]

So, whats your point? Does that change anything?

[coldtea]

For starters, the first "test" was bogus: grantparent said "front page", but parent tried the naked domain (which Mazda doesn't intent to be the front page).

[kazinator]

> Mazda doesn't intent

Do you work for Mazda, or else how do you know? Is this intent published on the real site somewhere, which is what the user is trying to find in the first place when they try mazda.com?

Maybe this is just some webmaster that needs to have their ass fired.

Trying "mazda.com" for Mazda is the obvious thing for a user to do. I just tried half a dozen multinational corporations that are associated with well-known consumer brands, they all have a page at <name>.com or redirect to one. It is not in any way "bogus" to try that.

The mazda.com page doesn't even provide a clue as to where the expected site actually is; that's what is "bogus". For a second I was wondering whether Mazda actually own the domain, or is that someone squatting (yet using a Mazda logo favicon).

Not to have a page there which redirects the user to the real one, and just a permission error, comes across as astonishingly unprofessional, especially for a company of the proportions of Mazda. (If it was Uncle Bob's Pizza down the street, I might not think so as much.)

[coldtea]

>Do you work for Mazda, or else how do you know?

There's this thing called common sense. Either they have a broken "naked domain" homepage for months and they didn't notice, or their homepage is www.mazda.com.

>Trying "mazda.com" for Mazda is the obvious thing for a user to do.

OK, fine, whatever.

>Not to have a page there which redirects the user to the real one, and just a permission error, comes across as astonishingly unprofessional

Which is neither here, nor there, to the actual question of this subthread: whether they have cars on their homepage.

That they have the naked domain not redirect to www, doesn't mean their homepage is that and not the one they actually present, fill-in, and treat as such.

[LeoPanthera]

> Trying "mazda.com" for Mazda is the obvious thing for a user to do.

That used to be the case, but I would argue strongly that it is no longer. Now the obvious and normal thing to do is type "Mazda" into a search engine. In the USA, mazdausa.com is the top hit. (And Wikipedia is second.)

[lopatin]

It changes the number of cars on the front page from 1 to 8.

Edit: Darn, I actually only count 6 cars on mazdausa.com

[0xTJ]

I don't get your point. Plenty of sites have `www` (though most will forward to it from the non-`www` version. A company's homepage isn't defined as their first-level subdomain. On top of that, many companies have different homepages. Some are for their products, some are for their company.

[kazinator]

> I don't get your point.

You must be like paid not to get it or something?

The corporate and product sites you are talking about firstly (1) exist and (2) link to each other. "Hey, this is our corporate site; if you're looking for products, click here."

Can you find another company that has the same revenue figures as Mazda (multi-billion dollars), and that is a widely recognized consumer brand, which has a broken web page at their root domain that doesn't redirect or link to anything, or even greet the user in any way?

It's pretty weird.

[gibolt]

Must be an NFT that you don't own

[jaredsohn]

nissan.com doesn't show any cars. :)