Activision Complains About ModernWarfare3.com, a Battlefield 3 Fansite

[Commander Fury]

 

by Jessica Conditt @ Joystiq.com.

 

Activision filed a domain-name dispute with National Arbitration Forum on Friday over ModernWarfare3.com, a gag website attempting to convert Modern Warfare 3 fans to EA’s Battlefield 3.

 

Activision argues that the person behind ModernWarfare3.com “has no right or legitimate interest in the Domain Name,” a violation of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, and wants the site under its own control. Activision has provided the panel with a two-page list of Modern Warfare‘s accomplishments as evidence of its right to the domain, or perhaps because it wants to see its “Best Shooter” award from CNN.com in writing.Activision claims the site contains copyrighted material, including the style of its Modern Warfare 3 header, and that the owner “supports the game Battlefield,” quoting that it “urges visitors to ‘grow up and forgettabout Modern Warfare 3 (because it looks just like Modern Warfare 2) and buy Battlefield 3 instead.’”

 

ModernWarfare3.com was purchased on March 26, 2009, almost two years before Modern Warfare 3 was officially announced, and until recently the website redirected users to Battlefield3.com. Currently its front page reads, “Warning: this website is under seige,” with the above clip from Monty Python’s Life of Brian re-dubbed to bash Modern Warfare 3.

 

 

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[shane]

If I was the owner, I would turn the tide and say that I owned the name before you even thought of MW3... so you owe me lol

[darth_cedaus]

I think its ingenious. Kudos to whoever came up with it.

 

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[QCNB]

The owner of that site is currently sitting on gold !

[Nemesis]

Activision is going to have to let the moths out of there wallets if they want this site.

 

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Edited July 18, 2011 by Nemesis

[Nemesis]

ModernWarfare3.com owner outed by GoDaddy

 

By Ben Gilbert posted Jul 19 2011 at 09:50AM @ Joystiq.com.

 

Miami,Florida resident Anthony Abraham has been sitting on a very valuable URL for approximately two and a half years at this point. And though he'd hidden his identity through his URL registrant,GoDaddy.com, via its "Domains By Proxy" hiding service, a domain dispute from Modern Warfare 3 publisher Activision dissolved that shield this past weekend: Abraham is the owner of ModernWarfare3.com who has been seemingly trolling Activision for days now.

 

The publisher filed a domain-name dispute with the National Arbitration Forum, claiming that the site owner violates Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. Rather than stand by Abraham, GoDaddy instead lifted the electronic shroud hiding the URL registrant's name, opening him up to direct contact with Activision (and by extension,we imagine, Activision's legal team).

 

Currently,the ModernWarfare3.com URL brings up nothing more than an error, though over the weekend it redirected to both Battlefield 3's main site as well as a spoof site lampooning Modern Warfare 3. Activision has yet to publicly comment on Mr. Abraham's actions,instead choosing to let its UDRP complaint act as representation. The publisher believes Abraham "has no right or legitimate interest in the Domain Name," and argues that it's entitled to control given its history with the Modern Warfare IP.

 

Way to stand by your members GoDaddy!!!

 

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Edited July 19, 2011 by Nemesis

[shane]

What will be interesting is if he is paying for the identity protection service, because GoDaddy may have open themselves up for liability

[Nemesis]

What will be interesting is if he is paying for the identity protection service, because GoDaddy may have open themselves up for liability

 

Big Time!!!

 

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