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."

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Re:Add a Hyphen

[dfm3]

It's an under-appreciated punctuation mark anyway.

Fixed. Sorry, I just couldn't resist. ;-)

Re:Looks Legit

[houstonbofh]

Oh, God. If McDonald's ever sells Hammers, I won't know who to root against!

To the City of Chicago

[DavidD_CA]

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

Re:Looks Legit

[Drathos]

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.