#Tokyo2021 Olympic #domains : Let the #Cybersquatting games begin!
Cybersquatters are snapping up “Tokyo 2021” domain names bearing the Olympic trademarks, hoping to capitalize on the change in the Olympiad. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) moved the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to 2021, shifting the year and triggering a digital gold rush. That’s one side effect of the Coronavirus pandemic! Meanwhile, in Japan, a research […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dick Pound : Looks like #Tokyo2021 is the next squatter’s #domain name!
The Olympics at Tokyo, Japan aren’t taking place in 2020. The Coronavirus pandemic is changing the world, and it’s impossible for such a huge athletic event to take place, when athletes can’t even train, let alone travel in the middle of this global crisis! While the Tokyo 2020 Olympiad isn’t yet canceled, it’s very likely […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Olympic Committee settled lawsuit over City/Year domain names
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has settled a lawsuit, involving domain names that contain a city name with a year identifier. Last year, the owner of more than 1,000 such domain names took on the IOC to defend his domain registrations as investments with a geographical focus. That cybersquatting act claim was apparently difficult to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Olympic domains : Protection of the City+Year word mark
A recent lawsuit filed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sought to secure rights to domains consisting of “City+Year” word marks. Although the practice targeted specific candidate cities owned by a self-professed investor in geo-domains, one might be walking on thin ice when registering any such “City+Year” combinations. In a recent article about the intellectual […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Olympic fight : I’m not a cybersquatter, says geodomain investor
A case involving a man apparently investing in geographical domains, and the almighty International Olympic Committee is unfolding. Stephen Frayne, Jr. of City Pure LLC, asserts that he had no ulterior motives when he registered more than 1,000 domains bearing the names of cities – plus a year suffix. A federal judge in Houston, Texas, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Who owns SexOlympics.com ?
The domain name SexOlympics.com is covered in a shroud of mystery. It has been pointed to adult content, or parked at adult parking pages for more than a decade, as Archive.org shows. Originally registered in 2000, SexOlympics.com appears to be owned by the International Olympic Committee, according to Domaintools: International Olympic Committe chateau de vidy […]
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