GoDaddy Rats Out the ModernWarfare3.com Owner
A few weeks ago, the funniest and greatest example of trolling hit the internet ever when someone had the balls to redirect ModernWarfare3.com to Battlefield 3′s website. Activision, naturally, was upset and has been trying to find out who did it. Well, Bobby Kotick and crew can stop their manhunt, as GoDaddy, via their “Domains by Proxy” hiding service, has outed the man who snagged the domain from Activision.
That man, in question, is Anthony Abraham from Miami, Florida. His trolling and obvious dislike of Activision has landed him in more hot water than he’d expected. Activision’s filed a domain name dispute with the National Arbitration Forum, and now that they know who Abraham is, he is pretty screwed. At the moment, the ModernWarfare3.com URL just brings up an error, as opposed to the Monty Python spoof video that was on through the weekend.
While all of this is pretty frigging funny, Activision has kind of brought this on themselves. They knew good and well that with the success of Modern Warfare 2 that there’d be a Modern Warfare 3, Infinity Ward issues be damned. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to Abraham in the end. In the meantime, I’d like to award Mr. Abraham with the “Troll of the Year” award.
Of course, even with all this trolling, it won’t matter until Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 duke it out on October 25 and November 8, respectively, of this year.
