Soon the new Oklahoma City NBA team will be releasing their new name.  We decided here at SportsTechNow to do a little research on the most obvious domain names if the Oklahoma City team would be called the Outlaws.

Here are the names we came up with:

OKCOutlaws.com (Domain Squatter)
OKOutlaws.com (Forwards to Yahoo.com but flashes Yahoo Sports first)(Update 7/8/2008: Now Forwards to an Ebay Auction.  Our advice is don’t bid on it. Update 7/9/2008: Ebay auction has been taken down and now forwards to a Godaddy premium domain for $5000.  Our advice obviously is don’t buy it.)
OCOutlaws.com (Domain Squatter)
Oklahomacityoutlaws.com (Domain Squatter)
Oklahomaoutlaws.com (Domain Squatter)

OKCoutlaws.com and OklahomaCityOutlaws.com is owned by someone named Brian Campbell, OKOutlaws.com is owned by someone named Brandon Cecil but the domain now refers to Yahoo so one can only think that Yahoo Sports just purchased the name.  Besides that, the real interesting part is that OCOutlaws.com and OklahomaOutlaws.com is owned privately in Bellevue, WA.

Now this could all mean nothing but what are the odds that 2 of these domains would be owned privately in a city right next to Seattle.  We have emails out to Brian Campbell and Brandon Cecil to see if they have been contacted about their domain names.  If they have already been contacted, they probably won’t reply as  we are sure the NBA will make them sign something that says not to discuss anything.

We also know that the NBA now hosts all the team websites but team domain names can be very valuable.

Update: Twins Territory has done some additional research and found out that Brian Campbell owns many of the other rumored names.  Some of them are oklahomacitybarons.com, oklahomacitycyclones.com, Oklahomacitydrillers.com, Oklahomacityoutlaws.com, oklahomacitythunder.com, oklahomacitythunderbirds.com, and Oklahomacitytwisters.com.  Obvioulsy Brian is some sort of domain investor and is banking on getting the name correct.  The Whois report says he owns over 800 other names.

Update 7/7/2008: We received email back from Brandon Cecil that says “sorry, but i cannot comment on that at this time.”   We believe this pretty much verifies the NBA or Yahoo is working with Brandon about his domain name, OKOutlaws.com.  If not, he would of just said no one has contacted him instead of saying I can’t comment at this time.

Update 7/8/2008: As one of the commenter has pointed out Brandon Cecil’s domain has now forwarded to an Ebay auction.  We think this pretty much confirms this won’t be the NBA name.

Check out the first Oklahoma City Basketball Sports Blog at Oklahomacitybball.com vote on your choices.