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Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com
An anonymous reader points to a story in the Chicago Tribune about another domain-name battle. Quoting the article: "As Chicago wages its battle to host the 2016 Olympics, it also finds itself scrapping over a valuable piece of cyberspace: the domain name of Chicago2016.com. The bid team along with the U.S. Olympic Committee are trying to wrest that online address from Stephen Frayne Jr., a 29-year-old MBA student. Frayne snagged it back in 2004, about two years before the bid was launched. ... 'We certainly see Chicago2016.com as the logical default domain for our site, and we believe having someone else control it is misleading for people seeking information about Chicago's bid,' said Patrick Sandusky, a spokesman for Chicago 2016, a moniker protected by trademark."
It's an under-appreciated punctuation mark anyway.
Fixed. Sorry, I just couldn't resist. ;-)
What's next, grant the patent to the large organizations simply because they're large?
Watch yourself, son. You're dangerously close to infringing my patent on "a method for granting patents to entities using a relative comparison of the size of entities."
i forget
Oh, God. If McDonald's ever sells Hammers, I won't know who to root against!
a) We move the Olympics year!
b) Chicago gets a new name!
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
They'll need to be more original than that. (e.g. Try "McGregor's Burger")
McDowell's, maybe?
ZuluPad, the wiki notepad on crack
It looks semi-legit. While it's a discussion site on the Olympics, it appears that he intentionally intercepted the domain by registering a bunch of <city><year> combos that happen to match Olympic years. Coincidence? I think not
Great idea, I just picked up Baghdad2018. I'm going to be rich when hell freezes over and they get the Winter Olympics.
Dear City of Chicago,
We regret to inform you that we have voted our 2016 Olympic Games be held at the fine city of Amsterdam, and not Chicago, IL.
Our decision was based on many factors, and your city scored quite well on all criteria of the selection process.
But when it came down to it, Amsterdam2016.com was actually registered to the right people.
Sincereley,
The Olympic Planning Task Force
-David
By me britches the pattern was surely established! Ye scurvy dogs may a missed that fact in yer mangy cowardly desire to hate the IOC! The IOC needs to walk the plank of legal authority and sleep in Davy Jones Locker, but by God it was in the right today! YARRRRRRRR
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
So ICANN has choklet kake? Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Look... Me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.
End of line..
Does it really matter? Either way you're going to be dealing with people in fat pants.
Nope. MC Hammer's lawyers would be on the case right away. They'd tell McDonalds that he is the rightful owner of the domain, and that they CAN'T TOUCH THIS!
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