This seems to be the end of Sun Microsystems. Oracle acquired Sun a while ago and have since let the brand disappear. Now it seems as though the last Sun Microsystem product is going to no longer exist and thats its domain name. Sun.com is the twelfth oldest domain name and it seems as though Oracle arent going to renew the site.
Sun.com will be decommisions on the 1st of June, so Im expecting there to be a lot of interest from around the world to purchase this domain. Maybe could even fetch the highest domain price ever?
Angeles Duran, 49 year-old woman from Spain, said to daily El Mundo that she registered the Sun as her property last week, with the presence of notary.
And how this woman came with the idea for claiming the sun? Well, when she read that in last September there was a guy who registered the Moon and other planets the idea came to her head. And additionally to that, there’s an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals.
“There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first.” said Angeles.
The official document where Duran is taking ownership of the Sun, declares the person as: “owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the center of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometers.”
And after this, of course, she’ll be charging to anyone who uses the Sun. But wait, not all the money will be for her, she’ll spend only 10% of the funds for herself.
The good news is that I guess we now have someone to sue about skin cancer.
