tsla.com = buick?

[gaswalla]

I typed in tsla.com by mistake, and I was suddenly taken to site of awful cars driven by old folks afraid of technology.

How weird is that? Buick bought tsla.com ?

 

[Chickenlittle]

I typed in tsla.com by mistake, and I was suddenly taken to site of awful cars driven by old folks afraid of technology.

How weird is that? Buick bought tsla.com ?

I did the same. Was trying to buy fully loaded mdelX p90dL and bought a Buick instead. The redirection really works!!

 

[Pluto]

It's an advertising agent that redirects you to Buick's website. If you watch the URL after visiting tsla.com, you'll notice multiple changes in the URL.

As a side note, Tesla owns ts.la and tesla.com.

 

[RDoc]

Crap, I just checked our car, it's actually a Buick Enclave!

 

[kort677]

It's easy to see how some might fall for this

 

[e-FTW]

Tesla should also buy telsa.com...

 

[gaswalla]

Huh? They just got that website

 

[ggr]

Huh? They just got that website

You missed the transposition error that is so common: he wrote teLSa. I agree they should get that too. Unfortunately it's already taken, by a real Spanish company.

 

[gaswalla]

thanks for the clarification ggr.. my mistake for reading too fast

 

[TSLAholic]

I just had a chat with their rep on the website to express my opinion of this practice. I suggest others do the same.

 

[tinm]

Odd, if you do a WHOIS on tsla dot com, it's owned by Tesla. Is this a new development? (I like that the domain expires in 2021... by then the stock oughta be at around $1000)

UPDATE: Hmm, on second thought, the DNS for it might be hijacked. That domain points to 85.17.25.242, which is somewhere in Europe. Does not sound legit. I would advise caution going to tsla dot com.... it's redirecting wildly. Not good. I've alerted a software engineer who works at Tesla to take a look.

 

[gaswalla]

as the OP, I'd like to take credit for identifying tsla.com and it's redirection in the past. Now it redirects to teslamotors.com ! Awesome

 

[TSLAholic]

Wow, I'd like to think I helped make a difference, but honestly, all I did was vent to some poor buick online chat rep.

 

[CuriousG]

I did the same. Was trying to buy fully loaded mdelX p90dL and bought a Buick instead. The redirection really works!!

As the sole participant to their Buick referral program, that Enclave (appears to be their most expensive car) is MINE!!!