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ModernWarfare3.com owner revealed, Go Daddy’s Privacy removed during UDRP

The Battlefield 3 fanboy who has fueled the drama between Electronic Arts and Activision by re-directing ModernWarfare3.com to Battlefield.com has been officially revealed. Originally hidden behind Go Daddy’s Domains By Proxy (DBP) service, it appears the registrar giant doesn’t want to get involved in the domain dispute recently filed under the UDRP by Activision against the owner of ModernWarfare3.com. Today, Go Daddy’s DBP has removed […]

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Activision files complaint over ModernWarfare3.com, posted online

Breaking update July 19, 2011 04:57 AM EST:  The identity of ModernWarfare3.com has now been revealed. ** Activision has had enough with ModernWarfare3.com. The gaming company has filed its first domain name dispute with the National Arbitration Forum. The complaint was filed today, July 15, a week after the mystery owner of the domain started re-directing the URL […]

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ModernWarfare3.com begins redirecting to EA’s Battlefield 3, more drama

Updated July 15, 2011:  The web address no longer re-directs.  Activision has filed a complaint over ModernWarfare3.com.  The domain dispute has been posted online. ** The saga of the web address ModernWarfare3.com, which is not owned by Activision, has been a story filled with bizarre twists. And if you thought the battle over first person shooters between Activision’s […]

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Another twist in ModernWarfare3.com story, still not owned by Activision

The ModernWarfare3.com ‘not owned by Activision’ story took another twist today as the producer of the video displayed on the homepage of the now ‘anti Call of Duty’ website, posted a message on the YouTube video saying, “I did not create ModernWarfare3.com.” I’ve been following the story of ModernWarfare3.com even before it was officially revealed […]

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ModernWarfare3.com owner lashes out at Activision, voices online support for EA’s Battlefield 3 with parody site

The owner of ModernWarfare3.com is lashing out at Activision, the publisher of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, in a series of statements and videos that appear on the ModernWarfare3.com website, and throwing support instead to Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 3 due out two weeks before the release of Modern Warfare 3 this fall. Up until yesterday […]