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So, it looks like the Sonics are moving to Oklahoma City . Fortunately, Bennett agreed to leave Seattle the “Sonics” moniker in case Seattle can either get an expansion team or another team to relocate to Seattle . Bennett claims that the team doesn’t have a name yet. If that’s true, his group made a serious mistake…far more damaging than the “smoking gun” emails that came out during the court proceedings.

Here’s how Sonics fans can exact revenge (besides vandalizing his Wikipedia page …funny stuff guys but that stuff doesn’t stick).

Buy up every possible dot com domain name that the team might think of using.

This is how to do it:

We think the team will be named the “ Oklahoma City team name”. They will likely be commonly referred to as the “OKC team name”. However, it is possible that Bennett could throw everybody a curve ball by calling his team the “ Oklahoma team name” (which makes the process more expensive).

To thwart Bennett, a Sonics Fan would have to create a spreadsheet listing the team names of every professional and most college franchises (could probably safely omit a few college names such as Minutemen) excluding the names already in use in the NBA. They would then buy all the dot com variations of “OklahomaCityteamname”, “OKCteamname” and “Oklahomateamname” that aren’t already taken (and domain name speculators are likely already buying them). They might also include variations of “Oilmen”, “Wildcatters”, “Tornados” and other words that might be associated specifically with Oklahoma.

Bennett can still name the team anything he wants…but you just might own the domain name he needs to market his franchise. Sure, he could buy a non dot com extension or buy a hyphenated version of the dot com. However, smart marketing folks know that the full name of the franchise is a necessary component of marketing the team online. Furthermore, Bennett couldn’t successfully claim infringement (though he might try) because you’d have speculated (nice oil term) on the new name of the franchise since the teams prospective name wasn’t public knowledge and couldn’t be known by you.

It would be the ultimate revenge to have Clayton Bennett’s representatives coming back to an unhappy Sonics fan trying in order to try to negotiate for the domain name of his new team. The domain name owner could either keep it for themselves or exact a pretty generous price for its sale (which will go a long way to make that particular Sonics fan feel better about what just happened).

Happy Domaining Sonics Fans!