With Colorado leaving the Big 12 and Utah bolting the Mountain West, the Pac-10 will have 12 teams next season. It is only right that they change their name to the Pac-12.
The new Pac-12 conference faced a funny problem when they tried to register their new domain name, pac12.com.
Pac12.com currently is an Amazon.com widget offering a “12Pac from Tupac.” Yep, the Pac-12 needs to get the World Intellectual Property Organization to clear the way for them to use this domain, which currently offers MP3 downloads from a dozen albums by the deceased rappper, Tupac Shakur.
The title of the page simply reads “Tupac Lives!”
Currently, you can get to the website for the Pac-10 basketball conference by visiting Pac-10.com. If the conference wants Pac-12.com, they also face registered domains, although that site opens to a blank page. It is currently owned to Bet-R Sites, LLC, a company that develops online strategies and solutions for clients.
The Pac-12 has new hopes that the site will not be renewed when it expires six months from now.
The site was last updated Feb. 1, 2011. That was one a day before the Pac-10 filed a complaint with the WIPO in possibly an attempt to keep the conference from claiming the site as dormant.
I am certain the Pac-12 did not expect to face a legal battle with Tupac Shakur when they set the new league in motion.
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