Tesla finally owns Tesla.com
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.
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...