The Soccer Star Lionel Messi, who may regard to be the best Soccer player in the world, has Filed UDRP Seeking Control of two Domain names Messi.com and Lionelmessi.com
The UDRP was filed by the soccer star whose full name is Lionel Andres Messi Cuccittini.
Messi.com has been owned under privacy since January but privacy was lifted to once the UDRP was filed and the domain name is owned by Lewis Jumpp of the UK.
Prior to January of this year, domain investor Andy Booth of the UK, has owned the domain since about August 23, 2008
David Meade owned it in 2008 for a short time
Dr F Messi Cell Culture Technologies owned it prior to that.
Messi.com seems to have been a fan site about the soccer star but it is currently offline but the site had a Google Page Rank of 4 and an Alexa ranking 880,000 in the world based on it’s traffic.
The domain name LionelMessi.com is owned by Andy Booth who has owned the domain since 2008.
LionelMessi.com also appears to be basically offline now as well, although that site also has an Google Page Rank of 4 but an Alexa Rank of just under 10 million.
According to Forbes.com, Messi is the 13th highest paid celebrity in the world earning $75 million dollars in 2015.
it was said in the argentine press that they will also be seeking boca.com as well.
Peñarol, where have you read that? on which Argentine newspaper?
That’s interesting, since we are currently representing both the owners of BOCA.com and BOCA.net.
Obviously “BOCA” is a generic term, which also means “mouth” in Spanish.
Serious tangible offers for these two ultra-premium names are always welcome.
hi Andrea,
look up Messi + Rosario + Boca …
yes, boca means mouth in both spanish and portuguese ( bocca in italian ) .. but it also
alludes to the team and the stadium ( eze ) .. it seems there is an upcoming documentary or
film of some kind, involving a famous derby Messi played long ago, when he wasnt so famous yet …
maybe that’s a lead. but even if not congrats, as you could probably sell that without Messi, to Boca JR directly maybe ..
best,
Good luck with taking Boca .com which is used for Palm Beach / Boca Raton. There’s no reference to soccer whatsoever in its use.
Exactly 🙂
Gracias for the info Peñarol 🙂
P.S.
In case you are interested, Penarol.net has been deleted today and, as of now, it’s available for reg fee. 🙂
Mr Messi has a lot of money to throw around and filing a UDRP is not a big deal, but is it the proper avenue to get the domain?
I participated in the auction of the domain Messi.com a couple years ago and I lost. The final sale price was around $3,000 and I though it was cheap for the traffic it was to generate. Soon-Later I noticed that the new owner was profiting from Lionel Messi’s image, and I wonder why it took too long for Lionel to file URDP. If I had won the domain, I would use it for non-Lionel or soccer related advertisement. I will follow up with this URDP, but I believe the now owner is doomed. Let’s see if he can get away of this one, good luck!