Comment Stupid post about a thing that would never happen (Score 1) 183
Take a scale.
On one side of the scale, place a million dollars (relative to the annual revenue of Oracle).
On the other side of the scale, place the value of maintaining some kind of redirect for the millions of links that will never completely go away. Then place the value of keeping the domain out of the hands of anyone who might use it in a way detrimental to your interests. Last but not least... place the fact that "sun.com" is embedded in the DTD's and XML Schemas for virtually all Java technology, and it would take decades to fully migrate away from and decommission all that.
This is so stupidly lopsided, the scale would break. Oracle will never do this. Maybe the point is simply that this domain name has a high appraisal value... but even that is not particularly interesting (*every* three-letter domain has a high appraisal value). This "story" is only here because any lazy filler involving Oracle, Microsoft, or the other standard villains is always good for a few clicks and advertising impressions.