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+-   NU graduate student defends right to own Chicago20 on Thursday September 18 2008, @01:33PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2008, @01:33PM
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An anonymous reader writes "from http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-thu-chicago2016-dotcom-battlsep18,0,6898818.story
"As Chicago wages its battle to host the 2016 Olympics, it also finds itself scrapping over a valuable piece of cyberspace: the domain name of Chicago2016.com.

The bid team along with the U.S. Olympic Committee are trying to wrest that online address from Stephen Frayne Jr., a 29-year-old MBA student.

Frayne snagged it back in 2004, about two years before the bid was launched. ...

"We certainly see Chicago2016.com as the logical default domain for our site, and we believe having someone else control it is misleading for people seeking information about Chicago's bid," said Patrick Sandusky, a spokesman for Chicago 2016, a moniker protected by trademark.""
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