Since I went to Ole Miss, I do my part and stay on top of Ole Miss football.
Our most recent season?
“Not so good”, as my wife likes to say..
So we fired our coach, Ed Orgeron, and went out, 4 days later, and hired the recently departed Houston Nutt of the Arkansas Razorbacks.
So…
being a domainer…
Guess who owns HoustonNutt.com?
Not Ole Miss.
HoustonNutt.com is still owned by his previous team, the Arkansas Razorbacks, and it still points to the Arkansas football website, HogWired.com.
I doubt this makes the Ole Miss football program happy, cosidering they had to drop a few million in salary to get him to committ.
I doubt it makes Houston Nutt happy, as he’s the rightful owner.
It sure don’t make me happy, and I’m a fan.
Such an odd and crazy situation, so many questions swirling around my head..
- Did Ole Miss request, and Arkansas refuse to transfer ownership of the domain name due to the competitive nature of SEC football?
- Or, did Houston personally request the name be transferred to his own personal registrar account, and Arkansas refuse due to their soured relationship?
- Does Houston know to file a UDRP case to regain control of his name?
- And actually - even a step back, can he file a UDRP case to take control of his name? (I’d say yes)
- Was transferring the domain part of his initial contract with Arkansas, and they simply haven’t gotten to it yet?
- Does Houston Nutt even care who controls his domain name? Does he know what domain names are?
- Has Ole Miss realized this yet?
- HottyToddyGoshAlmightyWhoTheHellAreWe.com?
- FlimFlamBimBamOleMissByDamn.com?
And on a side note,
Being the ham domainer I am, I tried to register olemissnutt.com..
nope. already taken.
Hats off the Mary Wall of Jackson, MS on that grab.. you dont realize it, Mary, but you’re a domainer : )
and if you want to soak in an outstanding Ole Miss related read, grab ‘The Blind Side‘ by Michael Lewis. One of the best books I’ve read in a while..
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Great post, Peter. Very interesting subject. Why would Arkansas even want that name except for to piss of Ole Miss. There’s no point in buying bobbypetrino.com because he might not be there long.