The Sporting News reported on a .NYC domain being used to troll one of its best collegiate basketball teams by a rival. It appears defending NCAA national champs UCONN have registered the domain name Syracuse.Nyc. Apparently UCONN is using the domain to redirect to a site that promotes UCONN as New York’s College Team.
From the article:
New York City offered up a chance for people with a primary address in any of its five boroughs to purchase a .nyc domain name to host a city-centric website of the buyer’s choice.
Tyler Wilkinson and Peter Bard at A Dime Back, a UConn-centric blog, couldn’t resist the opportunity to promote UConn while simultaneously trolling Syracuse fans so he enlisted the help of Russ Steinberg — an NYC resident and A Dime Back contributor — and the blog used his address to purchase the domain.
Now Syracuse.nyc directs people to a wesbite that hails the Huskies as “New York’s College Team” while flashing photos of UConn’s championship team and Kemba Walker, among other famous moments.
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