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The Miami Dolphins win Dolphins.com domain name dispute.

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Maybe the site launch delay has something to do with the Miami Dolphins filing a URDP dispute claim with ICANN to acquire Dolphins.com over the past month.. And it looks like the team won the domain name as the whois database is now showing Dolphins.com is owned by the National Football League.

First the initial story reported July 22nd

http://www.elliotsblog.com/miami-dolphins-files-udrp-for-dolphins-com

And the whois database is now showing ownership of the domain to the NFL

http://whois.domaintools.com/dolphins.com

The previous owners were stupid as they had ads up for miami dolphins tickets and team merchandise on the previous site (according to an archive check via archive.org). That's an infringement of the Team Mark.. If they didn't have those ads up, they would have kept the name as it's too generic a word to be taken away from them via WIPO... But it's good for us and the team to own Dolphins.com

http://www.keytlaw.com/urls/udrp.htm

But the previous owner lost the domain for nothing if it was indeed a ruling with ICANN and there was no backdoor deal for the name. As Dolphins.com received a very good amount of traffic, and one-word dotcoms are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes more.
 
By the way I contacted the owner of Jets.com as I saw it listed for sale at sedo. It was added just a month ago to their Top Domain listings on their home page.

http://sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=jets.com&tracked=&partnerid=&language=e

The owner said he wants $1 Million for it when he replied. I think Cowboys.com went for almost $400,000 not too long ago.. But it wasn't purchased by the football team (their mistake) , it was won at a domain auction by a private individual.

I guess the Dolphins are winning everything lately..
 
Don't see how it's nerdy at all.. It's pretty simple and self explanatory. If you just read the first link I put up, it's pretty easy to understand.

But let's make it easier for you.

If you have a trademark for a screw called "bioscrew", and I own the domain bioscrew.com and have ads on my site to sell your screws that you have a mark for, I am infringing on your trademark by making money on click ads on your product and brand.

I would be showing clear "bad faith" by using a dot-com domain name of your mark and product, and making a profit from the ads. And as a result you can sue me and take the domain name away from me by filing a URDP claim to ICANN.

The previous owner of Dolphins.com had some team advertisements up at Dolphins.com. That is a violation of the Miami Dolphins trademark of the mark "Dolphins" .. The Team has a trademark on the word "Dolphins". And having ads on there was a direct violation and infringement of their brand.

Because of those ads infringing on the team trademark and brand, the Miami Dolphins filed a URDP dispute against the previous owner of Dolphins.com, no different than suing someone.. There is a board/panel called ICANN which is an international board that solves such domain name disputes that violate a mark.

At any rate, the whois database (which anyone can check online), is showing the National Football League as the new owner of the domain name Dolphins.com.. So the previous owner of the domain got it taken away from them and apparently got "screwed". Because as of a month ago the whois database showed another entity owning the URL.

I'm thinking the delay for the new site launch is maybe they are trying to forward the new MiamiDolphins.com to Dolphins.com and are having server issues. One of the possibilities.
 
Or we can make it even easier

1) The previous owner of Dolphins.com screwed up by having team ads on there violating the Miami Dolphins copyright, brand and trademark... Domain names are considered intellectual property, and the previous owner used it's intellectual property in direct violation of a trademark holder ( The Miami Dolphins).

2) The Miami Dolphins sued the previous owner and went to ICANN to take the domain name "Dolphins.com" away from them.

3) The Miami Dolphins won the case and now own the domain name "Dolphins.com" ( to compliment their existing team site MiamiDolphins.com).

Easy enough ?
 
How can I contact the miamidolphins.com owner? I'm a chilean Phin Fan journalist, and I want to offer info. in spanish on the Fins web site.
 
Thanks Grey for all the info. I was wondering what was going on over there. They have been saying for weeks that there was gonna be this big new change to the site on Sat. Sat came and went and nothing, well they did change the intro to aquavision, but thats all. I was begining to believe that was all there was to the big changes. LOL

Good to know what is going on behind the scences.
 
hooper, that's old from 2007.. Here is how the site looked like a month ago right before the case file.. The previous owner was incredibly stupid because he could have still made a lot of money daily, and kept this valuable domain name, if he had other ads not pertaining to the team or TM.

They were even as stupid as to have the Team colors as the colors of the website. You cannot infringe on a trademark violation more directly than that :lol:

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