New York Cosmos returns – Soccer trademark headache for BuyDomains?

A soccer legend returns!

It seems like yesterday when I watched, a kid still, Pelé’s farewell demonstration soccer match on TV.

New York Cosmos played New York Santos on October 1, 1977 – a game that featured legendary Brazilian soccer player Edison Arantes do Nascimento, or Pelé to the rest of the world.

Cosmos won 2-1 with a goal scored by Pelé, who retired after the match. Soccer isn’t the most popular sport in the US and the team shut down its doors less than a decade later, in 1985.

Rolling forward to 2010, after a very successful and vuvuzela-laden World Cup in South Africa.

All of a sudden, the New York Cosmos is forming again!

At the end of 2009, a group of investors, led by Paul Kemsley, an English businessman who previously held an interest in British soccer team, Tottenham Hotspur, bought it along with the rights to the New York Cosmos franchise.

According to the press release:

The new Cosmos team has already partnered with Queens-based youth club BW Gottschee. Together they will field youth teams called the Cosmos Academy in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy. The Cosmos also bought the Copa NYC tournament, an competition in New York which has a 16-year history.

It’s all good until one realizes that the domain name NewYorkCosmos.com is owned by domain megastore, BuyDomains.

While there is no fixed price, the domain NewYorkCosmos.com is being flat out offered for sale, something that can cause a lot of headaches to BuyDomains, as the team is re-emerging.

On top of that, there are several registered trademarks listed at the USPTO that are linked to the new owners, which means that there will most likely be a struggle to obtain the much-coveted .com – the club currently operates from NYCosmos.com

Regardless, it’s great seeing a legendary US soccer team return, it brings back lots of childhood memories 😀

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