ARM purchase of arm2risv.com leaks pivot to RISC-V

brucehoult · on April 1, 2023

Seems HN followed the redirect before attaching the URL to the post, as the post just leads direct to arm.com.

http://arm2riscv.com/

Looks legit.

ta230401 · on April 2, 2023

Bruce, you and indolering know this domain was turned over to ARM months ago after a trademark dispute.

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case=D20...

https://archive.is/Vvnz5

brucehoult · on April 2, 2023

Nope, I didn't know anything about the WIPO case. Thanks for that information.

As for the other link, sure it is date related.

indolering · on April 2, 2023

Don't ruin a good April fools joke! Please delete this post and I promise I'll update it tomorrow.

slater · on April 2, 2023

I believe HN checks for the canonical URL, and if it's different to the one submitted, the canonical URL is used.

indolering · on April 1, 2023

It redirects to arm.com and they share a registrar [1, 2].

[1]: https://who.is/whois/arm2riscv.com

[2]: https://who.is/whois/arm.com

indolering · on April 3, 2023

April fools everyone! Seems like ARM got the domain from a trademark dispute. Redirecting it to their own website is a pretty funny self-own .

snvzz · on April 2, 2023

Maybe they just don't want somebody else to have that domain?

I just don't trust ARM management to be smart enough to pivot to RISC-V.

indolering · on April 2, 2023

They certainly seem to have purchased it from somebody [1], which appears to have been registered shortly after a Github project of the same name went live [2].

Maybe it's a catch-and-kill?

[1]: https://dnshistory.org/historical-dns-records/ns/arm2riscv.c...

[2]: https://github.com/schorrm/arm2riscv