Suspended football player wins rights to domain name.
Detroit Lions star defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh may have to sit out a couple games because of his stomping incident last week, but he’s still winning off the field.
A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded him his namesake — NdamukongSuh.com.
The domain name was registered to Tim Evans of Athlete Web Design. He registered the domain name in 2009. According to the complaint, he offered to transfer the domain name after he found out that Suh had retained another web developer to create his web site. But he wanted some memorabilia or football tickets in return.
Suh declined and filed the UDRP case instead. Evans offered to transfer the domain after the case was filed, but asked the panel to find that he didn’t register the domain in bad faith. The panel disagreed and said it was registered in bad faith.
Athlete web design has designed sites for a number of pro football players including Davone Bess, Shonn Greene, and Justin Blalock.
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With all of his fines this season, I’m surprised Suh didn’t save a few bucks, take matters into his own hands, and hunt down Tim Evans. After all, he does have some free time coming up with his most recent suspension for his head stomping tirade. I hope he makes it an annual Thanksgiving head stomping tradition.
All kidding aside, I do want to thank Suh for inspiring my new fantasy football team name, heading into the playoffs: It’s on like Ndamukong.