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Association Buys NFLLockout.com Domain Name — NFL Players

Association Buys NFLLockout.com Domain Name — NFL Players

Football players union gears up for possible lockout by buying domain name.

NFL Players AssociationIs a lockout of National Football League players likely in 2011? NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith told ESPN that, on a scale from 1-10, the likelihood of a lockout is a 14. That sounds serious.

Perhaps to gain an upper hand, the NFL Players Association just bought the domain name NFLLockout.com. Seller Eric Gargiulo tells Reglike that he sold the domain name for $25,000 to the union.

That’s not a bad return for Gargiulo, given that he just registered the domain name last September. It’s also the best possible outcome he could have expected; the National Football League could have probably won the domain name in a domain name arbitration case.

Both NFLLockout.net and NFLLockout.org are also registered, but the owners of the domain names is using whois privacy to shield their identies.

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