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02-23-2016, 12:41 AM
Tesla finally owns Tesla.com
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Elon Musk is one of the most powerful names in business, but it took his company Tesla over a decade to finally nab its namesake URL this week.*
Silicon Valley engineer and Nikola Tesla super fan (such people apparently exist) Stu Grossman bought up the Tesla domain back in 1992 with the hopes of making a fan site for the **ted mechanical engineer, according to Bloomberg. (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-19/tesla-s-musk-gets-tesla-com-domain-name-after-waiting-a-decade)
SEE ALSO:*The year in Elon Musk's highs and lows, from Tesla to SpaceX (http://mashable.com/2015/12/22/elon-musk-2015/)
While Grossman's ode to Tesla never came to fruition, the site sat empty — "parked by owner," in ironic internet speak — used only as Grossman's email domain. Meanwhile, poor old Musk had to settle for the clunkier teslamotors.com. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/22/tesla-dot-com/)
More about Elon Musk (http://mashable.com/category/elon-musk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tesla (http://mashable.com/category/tesla/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Internet (http://mashable.com/category/internet/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/wA85V_2ymPI
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Elon Musk is one of the most powerful names in business, but it took his company Tesla over a decade to finally nab its namesake URL this week.*
Silicon Valley engineer and Nikola Tesla super fan (such people apparently exist) Stu Grossman bought up the Tesla domain back in 1992 with the hopes of making a fan site for the **ted mechanical engineer, according to Bloomberg. (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-19/tesla-s-musk-gets-tesla-com-domain-name-after-waiting-a-decade)
SEE ALSO:*The year in Elon Musk's highs and lows, from Tesla to SpaceX (http://mashable.com/2015/12/22/elon-musk-2015/)
While Grossman's ode to Tesla never came to fruition, the site sat empty — "parked by owner," in ironic internet speak — used only as Grossman's email domain. Meanwhile, poor old Musk had to settle for the clunkier teslamotors.com. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/22/tesla-dot-com/)
More about Elon Musk (http://mashable.com/category/elon-musk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tesla (http://mashable.com/category/tesla/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Internet (http://mashable.com/category/internet/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/wA85V_2ymPI