[LINK] no more sun.com

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Sun Mar 10 05:14:57 AEDT 2013


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:
>"Yes, after 25 years of
> answering the call of sun.com, the company that no longer is will be
> letting go of its former domain name as well. The site has already
> been redirecting users to Oracle for quite a while, but come June
> 1st, it'll be like the Sun we knew had never even risen."
> http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/16/sun-com-the-twelfth-oldest-domain-on-the-internet-will-be-deco/

... and two years later, Sun.com is still alive.

Guess someone figured out how much traffic was coming from
java.sun.com redirectors, and how many things would break of they
choose to shut down the domain name.

... and it also proves that you can´t trust engadget. :-P

FC




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