French Open organizer awarded domain name by arbitration panel.
Fedération Française du Tennis (FFT), organizer of the Grand Slam tournament French Internationals of Roland Garros (French Open), is the latest group to win a .co domain name through a UDRP case.
This was an easy case for the tennis organization. The registrant of the domain name sent an email to the Federation that read:
Bonjour,
I own the domain frenchopen.co, which I recently bought when the .co extension came into public availability.
I have had a lot of interest from private parties to buy the domain name. But as the domain is more relevant for the French federation and Rolland garros, I would like to give the first refusal to FFT. So if the organization is interested in buying or renting the domain “frenchopen.co” please get in touch with me. You can contact me at […].
Merci
I’d call that game, set, match.
Joe says
I’d call it madness. A couple of weeks ago I found out someone had various eBay.ccTLD domains for sale on… eBay!
Jp says
Just as he stated I’m sure hehad tons of offers already for the domain. That same bs is way worse If the extension has only been available for a short period of time. Geesh
Joe says
Anyway I’d like to point out that the organization should have very likely filed a complaint regardless of the particular extension of the domain frenchopen.TLD, if it had been offered to them.
@Andrew
Any news about .CO marketing campaign in Austin?
Andrew Allemann says
@ Joe – .co sponsored a number of events during SXSW and also “skinned” some pedicabs around town. I’ll upload a picture when I get a chance.
I’m in San Francisco right now and there’s .co billboard in Union Square.
Joe says
@Andrew
Thanks.