"As Chicago wages its battle to host the 2016 Olympics, it also finds itself scrapping over a valuable piece of cyberspace: the domain name of Chicago2016.com. The bid team along with the U.S. Olympic Committee are trying to wrest that online address from Stephen Frayne Jr., a 29-year-old MBA student. Frayne snagged it back in 2004, about two years before the bid was launched. ... 'We certainly see Chicago2016.com as the logical default domain for our site, and we believe having someone else control it is misleading for people seeking information about Chicago's bid,' said Patrick Sandusky, a spokesman for Chicago 2016, a moniker protected by trademark."
Frayne said he is not interested in selling his sites wwww.chicago2016.com or Tokyo2016.com.
Frayne's goal, his lawsuit states, is to foster public debate on whether the Olympic bid is the best use of officials' time, taxpayers' money and local citizens' money, and about how the Olympics would impact the city. His site carries prominent disclaimers that it is not the official Chicago 2016 site, and it includes links to the official site.
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