Oakland Raiders Take Fight Off Field for Domain Name
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Football team trying to get OaklandRaiders.com domain name.
National Football League franchise Oakland Raiders have filed for arbitration to get the domain name OaklandRaiders.com. The case was filed at World Intellectual Property Organization against a registrant who is using whois privacy to protect his information. The domain name is parked and shows ads for Oakland Raiders tickets and merchandise.
The Raiders’ official web site is Raiders.com.
The whois history for OaklandRaiders.com is amusing and hard to track, which is probably why the Raiders decided to file the domain dispute. Before the record turned private on March 14, 2009, the registrant listed himself as “Oakland Raiders Realty” in Dallas Texas. In 2008 the domain owner listed himself as “National Football League”, but used a Hotmail email account and an address in California.
The National Basketball Association’s Denver Nuggets are an example of a professional sports team to recently win a domain arbitration case. The team won the domain name DenverNuggets.com.
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He can kiss that domain goodbye lol
What a dummy for regging that domain.
I can’t wait until all obvious trademark domains are gone from parking. It is killing us all slowly.
This is not fair, who ever registered the domain first should be able to keep the rights to it until they expire. Just another high profile organization throwing their weight around after they lost out. That is why this country is not fair. They have it first fair and square. Should be that the Raiders lose out, but you know they will get it.
Josh have you even read the UDRP policy? I bet you would be really upset if ICANN implements the proposed IRT Final Report.
Oh Josh, STFU! “This is not FAAAAIIIIR”. & “That is why this country is not fair”. Waaahhhh! It’s not fair that some opportunistic piece of trash is not able to exploit loopholes in the policy in order to extort cash from huge corporations. You act as if the guy who had the registered the name had won the lottery, & the mean ol’ Raiders refuse to pay out. I bet you’re one of those weasels who fakes “neck injury” in a minor car crash, so you can file a fake lawsuit for an insurance settlement.THAT’s why insurance rates are not fair. Because of weasels like YOU.
Mik,
While I couldn’t say it as colorfully as you did, I must agree with you 100 percent.
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