Oklahoma City NBA Team Rolling with Thunder*
NBA July 19th. 2008, 2:00pm
KOCO 5 in Oklahoma City is reporting that the Seattle Supersonics will soon be called the Oklahoma City Thunder. Their evidence?
Calls to team officials were unreturned Friday afternoon and evening. However, KOCO.com confirmed that the registrar for all of the NBA’s Internet domain names reserved okcthunderbasketball.com and okcthunderbasketball.net on July 10. CSC Corporate Domains describes itself as a domain name management company for corporations, law firms and intellectual property professionals. It is the registrar of record for nba.com and all other domains managed by NBA Media Ventures, LLC.
So it’s a good bet that the Oklahoma City Thunder will be playing basketball come November. They’ll also be playing football, because the Oklahoma Thunder is the World Football League’s franchise housed in Tulsa. How original.
It should be noted that just because the domains have been resistered, doesn’t mean it was done by an NBA front office. John Doe could have registered the domain just so he could sell it at a later date. It would be like if I registered “www.nakedguyonaplane.com” in the hopes that I could sell it to Samuel L Jackson for a future movie.
[Deadspin]
* That was a mainstream media-level snappy headline.
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July 19th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
How very USBL.
July 19th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
CAN YOU FEEL…..THE THUNDER
July 19th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Imig – the last sentences are referred to as “cyber-squatting” and is illegal.
July 19th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
/made more accurate
July 19th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
So Oklahoma City is still in the Anal Stage.
This explains some things.
July 19th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
It’s… terrible. Not as bad as the Bobcats, or Utah Jazz, or Knickerbockers, Clippers, Trailblazers, Supersonics, Nets, Spurs, LA Lakers, but still terrible.
Who has the worst team name in sports? The Cincinati Red Stockings? Cleveland Browns? The Mighty Acorns of Ohio State(a buckeye, really)? The Akron Zips? Thinking about it, Ohio should be banned from coming up with names.