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Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:05:58 +0000

[...] in April 2009 the IOC first threatened to sue ICANN over the introduction of new top level domain names. In March of this year it [...]

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Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:04:17 +0000

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Olympics to ICANN: Weâ€™ll Sue You — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:45:47 +0000

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By: Brian Carr

Brian Carr — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:04:13 +0000

For what it’s worth, one of the first lessons learned by the IOC was around WinterOlympics.com, and they are probably still smarting about it.

I was at CBS SportsLine in 1997 when we registered WinterOlympics.com for the 1998 CBS Nagano Winter Olympics website — it was the last Olympics done by CBS before NBC did their exclusive multi-year deal.

The IOC was pretty ruthless trying to get the name to say the least — but to this day, CBS owns it but cannot use it in any promotions or TV placements.

The IOC owns SummerOlympics.com and it’s a dead page. Enough said.

By: M. Menius

M. Menius — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:09:16 +0000

@randonneur – You characterize it however suits you, but I doubt its about the overcompensating egos of “small-bore lawyers”. There are real principles and interests at stake. And ICANN is the culprit. That’s true no matter how eloquent your rebuttal. You seem to be missing the forest for the trees. Or reacting to some prior butt kicking you previously received from IOC.

ICANN dropping a time bomb in everyone’s living room is not superfluous either. And ICANN had better not “bin” any letters. ICANN’s authority is being injected into an arena of bigger and more aggressive players than themselves. We call that being too big for your britches.

And even more importantly, ICANN’s impetus for pushing new TLD’s has zero merit when stacked against the potential damage this proposal will cause to countless companies. And that’s the argument in a nutshell. So it really comes down to just how arrogant and selfish this organization really is. And how they calculate their chances. Currently, they are failing to factor in the repercussions to themselves collectively and personally. Which is a serious miscalculation. They will be accountable.