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Microsoft files dispute over Xboxone.com and Xboxone.net domains
http://www.inquisitr.com/676623/microsoft-files-dispute-against-owner-of-xboxone-com-and-xboxone-net/
Redirect to Nintendo anyone?
He also owns the @Xboxone twitter handle seemingly
Microsoft has filed a complaint against the current owner of the websites Xboxone.com and Xboxone.net, just days after the company revealed its new next-gen console, the Xbox One. The company revealed the console, which had previously been called the Xbox 720 or Durango, on Tuesday, May 21. Microsoft announced that the console would be available by the end of 2013.
Microsoft filed the complaint with the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) on May 23, and its case number (1501205) is currently listed as pending in the forum’s domain dispute database. Both website domains are registered to London resident Krasimir Hristov Ivanov, who bought the domains on December 29, 2011, according to domain registration search engine WhoIs.
A Microsoft representative told IGN, “Microsoft’s domain name portfolio is a part of its ongoing business strategy, but beyond that we have no comment.”
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/676623/microsoft-files-dispute-against-owner-of-xboxone-com-and-xboxone-net/#SFQ3VAKmvWzYqd7S.99
Redirect to Nintendo anyone?
He also owns the @Xboxone twitter handle seemingly
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How can it be cyber squatting when he registered them in 2011?
Like this.
If he actually used them for e.g. an active fan site or forum, then fair enough, plenty of Xbox fan-sites and forums have "xbox" in the name.
But if he's just bought them and sat on them, then surely that is cyber-squatting and MS has every right to sue...
This.
If he bought it for a fan site for the original Xbox then he should keep it. As it stands it looks as though he bought them on the off-chance MS would give him lots of money for it should they call a console the Xbox One. He did get there first however, so MS should at least pay him to end his registration and chuck a free console in.