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 noted mechanical engineer, according to Bloomberg.
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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…