{"id":13470,"date":"2011-08-15T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"domain-trolls-grab-wiiu-com-url-before-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13470-domain-trolls-grab-wiiu-com-url-before-nintendo","title":{"rendered":"Domain trolls grab wiiu.com URL before Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh hey, got a moment? Go on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiiu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.wiiu.com<\/a> and take a good look around. What&rsquo;s wrong with this picture? If you guessed &ldquo;Well, um, it has nothing to do with the Nintendo console of the same name, it&rsquo;s just some lame shopping site with loads of ads&rdquo;, you win a prize.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/whois.domaintools.com\/wiiu.com\" target=\"_blank\">whois query,<\/a> the URL was registered back in 2004 already (interestingly enough, before the Wii was even announced), but the most recent update was on 8 June 2011. Which &ndash; for those of you keeping up &ndash; is the day after Nintendo announced the Wii U at E3. Coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>The registrar is hidden by whois privacy protocols, although it&rsquo;s probably safe to assume Nintendo&rsquo;s people have been calling their people, and trying to work something out. It&rsquo;s kind of odd that they didn&rsquo;t sort this out before announcing the console, though.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has just filed almost 20 trademark applications for the name &ldquo;Wii U&rdquo; with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, so it&rsquo;s really only a matter of time and legal fees now.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16520-Domain-campers-snatch-Wiiu.com-URL?p=495348#post495348\" target=\"_self\">Discuss latest domain troll hijinks<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENIED!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}