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.
[source fusible.com]
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cool
Good.
Hmmm
Nintendo stomped those silly goombas trying to give away free Mario games
very well
wait...you could play original mario games on that site? for free?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I notice that mario.com has yet to join the ranks...
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.
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!
They still need to get Mario.com
Huh. How about that.
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.
Thats good to hear.
No the silly goombas, might own this
About time...
How much did they have to pay for that?
That guy is probably a millionaire now. :/
@JimLad I know, how lucky! I don't think it would be too much though.
Good thing. All the character sites are organized
nintendo did the right thing
Nice, I was wondering what was going on with that.
@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.
Court costs vs paying him.... unless the guy was an idiot, a couple of thousand probably changed hands.
I guess I'll have to find some other place to play Mario games online.
Nintendo did what it had to do. [Insert applause]
Good for them.
Aw man, I loved that site. It had some really fun games.
Oh well, there's like a billion other sites to go to if I really feel the need to play some Mario flash games.
www.supermariobrothers.org was better anyway.
Looks like Nintendo will now be the squatter to thwart Mario Lemieux's acquisition of the domain.
Cool! Most of those Internet Mario games aren't as good as the real things.
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.
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
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