Super Bowl domains: You know you should not do it!
Superbowl is a registered trademark of the NFL.
“Super Bowl” is a registered trademark of the National Football League, going back to 1966.
Naturally, the NFL owns SuperBowl.com – but what about those that think it’s ok to register domains abusing this famous trademark?
Apparently, there are at least 2,968 domain names – including those operated by the NFL – that contain the term “superbowl“, according to top domain tool, ZFBot!
With a lucrative market for sports paraphernalia, the trademark violators have a financial motive, no doubt.
Surprisingly, we found no “Super Bowl” domains listed on Flippa.com, which is a good thing for a change. However, some fool there is selling MyNewEnglandPatriots.com
Also on Flippa, the auction for 2012superbowl.org ended with the domain being unsold.
Kids, don’t do it!
Superbowl is also a registered trademark for Chinese restaurant called Superbowl restaurant business in Australia.
Class: 43 Restaurant; restaurant services; cafes and dessert stores; providing food and drink; takeaway food and drink services; food and drink catering
http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/atmoss/falcon_details.show_tm_details?p_tm_number=1424851&p_search_no=3&p_ExtDisp=D&p_detail=DETAILED&p_rec_no=3&p_rec_all=3
Rayy – I hope they stick to .com.au then.
Yes, they stick to .com.au but a long tail domain name,
SuperbowlChineseRestaurant.com.au
There is a Superbowl.com.au which is for a bowling club sport in Australia.
Rayy – What a disaster for Aussies wanting the pu-pu platter!
There are actually exactly 6,000 domains that contain “Superbowl” (not just starting/ending with)
http://www.zfbot.com/dropbox/superbowl_domains.txt
Queries like that run fairly quickly directly on my server but cause browsers to time out. Working on it though…