Willie Mays Wants His (Domain) Name Back
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays asks arbitrator to get domain name WillieMays.com.
Major League Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays has filed for arbitration with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to get the domain name WillieMays.com. The case was posted to WIPO’s web site this morning.
The “Say Hey Kid” played for the New York and San Francisco Giants before concluding his career with the New York Mets.
The domain name is currently registered to “Global Access” in Isle of Man. It is parked with HitFarm, and shows links for “San Francisco Giants Tickets”, “New York Mets”, and “SF Giants”. The parked page includes a generic picture unrelated to baseball. The domain appears to have transferred to its current owner in 2005-2007. Compete.com suggests the domain name gets nominal traffic.
WIPO will decide the case within a couple months.
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Should be an easy win.
Yes….please take this domain away from this squatter.
The owner makes domainers look bad….which none of us legitimate business folks want.
seems it auctioned with expired domains as it shows it regged in 1998.
what abt the registrar who auctioned this domain. do they sued too ?
Name domains are always tricky. There might be 100 more people named Willie Mays. Because this Willie Mays is a MLB player, does he get automatic preference over all the other Willie Mays ?