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Take-Two Loses Legal Battle Over Domain BioShock.com

Regarding the BioShock.com web domain, Take-Two Interactive loses the lawsuit. The court decides that the said domain was not used in the promotion of video-game related advertisements.

If anyone has noticed the domain BioShock.com, one may have seen that it was related to biology related subjects and it was not the official site of Take-Two.

The domain was under legal dispute for some time. It is actually owned by Name Administration. The game developer claims, “The only reason for [Name Administration's] use of the Domain Name is to trade off the value and goodwill of [Take-Two's] BioShock trademark by diverting users to third-party commercial websites for profit.”

Take-Two also argues that Name Administration allegedly implicate in domain squatting. It registers domains with name that involve a trademarked owned by someone else. It intents to make profit by displaying advertisements on the website.

However, Take-Two will still use BioShockGame.com for its BioShock and BioShock 2. BioShock2.com is also in the same situation as BioShock.com. Learning lesson, Take-Two has registered BioShockInfinite.com to make Irrational’s upcoming creation safe.