Finally, Nintendo Owns SuperMario.com
Posted by James Newton
Squatters stomped
Super Mario turned 25 last year, but Nintendo's only just got around to wresting control of the all-important domain SuperMario.com from a nefarious Internet squatter.
Until 25th September, SuperMario.com offered free Mario games playable over the Internet, but domain snooping shows it now belongs to Nintendo of America. The page currently directs nowhere, but we're sure in time it'll point towards a hub for all things Mario.
The domain joins Metroid.com, StarFox.com and Zelda.com — among others — in Nintendo's ranks of official domains.
[via fusible.com]
#1
D33G said:
cool
#2
SpriteKing said:
Good.
#3
Mahary said:
nice i was waitting for this
#4
LEGEND_MARIOID said:
Hmmm
#5
LzQuacker said:
Nintendo stomped those silly goombas trying to give away free Mario games
#6
JettiBlue said:
very well
#7
6ch6ris6 said:
wait...you could play original mario games on that site? for free?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
#8
she_gamer said:
I notice that mario.com has yet to join the ranks...
#9
Highwinter said:
I think Mario is too common a name for Nintendo to claim ownership over. Super Mario was a totally different story, especially because of what it was being used for.
#10
Wheels2050 said:
Ah, good to see Nintendo has finally figured out that that new-fangled contraption called the Internet exists.
It's great to see such a cutting-edge company!
#11
MrSRArter said:
They still need to get Mario.com
#12
Kage_88 said:
Huh. How about that.
#13
Tasuki said:
At least it went to something Mario related thats probably what took Nintendo so long to get it. I remember reading back when The Jay Leno Show started up NBC had to fight some guy who had the domain Jaylenoshow.com which would direct to his used car lot.
#14
FonistofCruxis said:
Thats good to hear.
#15
R-L-A-George said:
No the silly goombas, might own this
#16
gamepopper said:
About time...
#17
JimLad said:
How much did they have to pay for that?
That guy is probably a millionaire now. :/
#18
ryanthehedgehog said:
@JimLad I know, how lucky! I don't think it would be too much though.
Good thing. All the character sites are organized
#19
misswliu81 said:
nintendo did the right thing
#20
Neram said:
Nice, I was wondering what was going on with that.
#21
Tasuki said:
@JimLad: Probably didnt have to pay him a thing. Nintendo probably just took him to court on squatting charges and using the faith of the name Super Mario name for their own profit and misrepresentation.
#22
timp29 said:
Court costs vs paying him.... unless the guy was an idiot, a couple of thousand probably changed hands.
#23
DrDaisy said:
I guess I'll have to find some other place to play Mario games online.
#24
MetroidMasher17 said:
Nintendo did what it had to do. [Insert applause]
#25
Doma said:
Good for them.
#26
Link245 said:
Aw man, I loved that site. It had some really fun games.
#27
Waymores_Blues said:
Oh well, there's like a billion other sites to go to if I really feel the need to play some Mario flash games.
#28
Funky_Gamer said:
www.supermariobrothers.org was better anyway.
#29
FJOJR said:
Looks like Nintendo will now be the squatter to thwart Mario Lemieux's acquisition of the domain.
#30
PunnyGuy said:
Cool! Most of those Internet Mario games aren't as good as the real things.
#31
DrCruse said:
www.mario.com is a "Private Website not for sale" as declared on it's front and only page
#32
EvisceratorX said:
That's actually a good idea owning the domain name of something that could be related to a big compnay like this. This squatter was fully within his rights to retain ownership of the site and he probably sold it to them for a hefty chunk of cash.
#33
StarDust said:
The last version of the site as crawled by archive.org on July 16, 2011:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110716013703/http://www.supermario.com/
Sadly, none of the games work. Why hadn't I heard about this site before???
LOLz, classic game of cat-&-mouse http://www.supermariobrothers.org