I dare anyone to reserve the domain winter2010withglowinghearts.com.
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The International Olympic Committee has trademarked a line from the Canadian national anthem, “with glowing hearts,” and is threatening to sue anyone who uses the line in Canada, as part of the Vancouver Games.
The committee is so serious about protecting the Olympic brand it managed to get a landmark piece of legislation passed in the House of Commons last year that made using certain phrases related to the Games a violation of law. The list includes the number 2010 and the word “winter.”
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Ok, so you can’t say the phrase “Winter 2010.” You can’t say, “with glowing hearts.” Oh how I would love to grab “Winter 2010 with glowing hearts dot com” as a domain. But I’m too chicken. Please. Someone do it. I want to see what the IOC does.
Whoever gets this domain should link to this post. In fact, I encourage people to write about this (and you could even copy this post word for word) and then the owner of winter2010withglowinghearts.com could link to all of our blog posts. (thanks to sparxmind for this idea).
Notice how boingboing was even afraid to say “Winter 2010” in their article. They had to resort to: “The list includes the number 2010 and the word ‘winter.'” Say it for what it is. They banned the phrase WINTER 2010. I want some WINTER 2010 WITH GLOWING HEARTS.
Ok. So I went ahead and bought the domain. I just couldn’t resist.
ha. nice. I guess I’ll have to come up with a different post for this idea then. I’ll make up a list of top “sue me” domains. 🙂 Take that IOC! #1 mywinter2010.com (which already has one backlink from this post now!)
So have you been sued yet?
I was not able to get the domain. I “bought” it from namesecure, but then had no record of me buying it. Apparently some kid in Ontario grabbed it at the exact same time as me. And he won the tie-breaker. Daniel Teoh London, Ontario N6A2S3 CA That’s the guy. He’s on myspace. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=65931279 I’m not upset at all. I mean, I’m disappointed that I didn’t get the domain. But it’s cool that he got it. He can handle the Olympic cronies knocking on his Canadian door. I should write him a letter telling him he is totally cool for thinking of the same idea as me.
And yes, i’m using the word cronies now, cuz John McCain likes to say it. GET THOSE CRONIES!
Whoa, I have a friend who’s from London, Ontario. Perhaps he knows Dan…
can you check if your friend will go over to dan and steal the domain from him? That would be great, thanks.