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JetBluePark.com directs to Yankees site 02.22.12 at 1:57 pm ET
By Jerry Spar

The Red Sox did not miss many details when it came to constructing the team’s new spring training home, JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Fla. One thing they overlooked, however, was obtaining the Internet domain name jetbluepark.com.

Fort Myers resident Eric Engelman purchased the domain name for $8 last March after learning of the new facility’s name.

“I just thought it would be fun to have,” Engleman told The News-Press.

Engelman, 30, is a Cubs fan, but he decided to play a joke and have the site link to the Yankees home page. That got the attention of the Red Sox.

“Have him call me,” executive vice president and chief operating officer Sam Kennedy told the Florida paper. “We can make a deal. Or maybe we can make a deal.”

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  • http://twitter.com/runaway3124 Devan Curry

    Who cares? I would never even think to go to that domain.

  • http://www.facebook.com/LeeJohnson77 Lee Johnson

    That’s absolutely hilarious. Good for him. He’ll probably get better compensation for the domain name than the Sox got for Theo.

  • http://www.facebook.com/LeeJohnson77 Lee Johnson

    That’s absolutely hilarious. Good for him. He’ll probably get better compensation for the domain name than the Sox got for Theo.

  • JimDaytona

    It is amazing in the day and age that the domain would not have been bought at the proper time. Someone really screwed up.

  • John S Pelletier

    This is what we call cybersquatting . . .  ICANN will probably just give the name to the red sox because this guy purchased the name in bad faith.

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