Cyber Squatter Promises To Give Up ‘Zlatan.fr’ Domain If Zlatan Himself Completes One Of Twelve Challenges

Chris Wright

3rd, January 2013

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By Chris Wright

For the uninitiated, cybersquatting is the practice of registering a domain name that a company or individual is likely to want to obtain at some point in the future with the sole intention of selling it to said company –  for example, snaffling up www.jedsbogbrushes.co.uk in advance and lying in wait until Jed’s Toilet Brush Emporium decide to open an online store.

An anonymous urchin in France has purchased ‘zlatan.fr‘ (.fr being the top level French domain address) and offered to relinquish the web address should Zlatan or his team want to create a French website – though he’s not asking for money, oh no.

Instead, the squatter (who has only identified himself as a ‘huge PSG fan’ and nothing more) has laid down 12 Herculean challenges for Zlatan himself, with the domain up for grabs if the Swedish striker completes just one of the 12 Zlatulean labours.

The challenges are as follows…

1. Offer me a dedicated PSG jersey, with my name on it and the following quote : “After Zlatan, you really are the best !”

2. Stay at my place for a month. This way, all my life, I could say :”Ibra ? Sure, he used to sleep on my couch for a while.”

3. Offer me 3 lifetime season tickets, for two of my friends and I. Obviously, I’m talking about Official tribune tickets… don’t try to fool me with your crappy H Blue tribune tickets…

4. Win penalty kicks against me, at the Parc des Princes of course, so that you’re at home and have no excuse in case I win.

5. Beat me at Taekwondo. I’ve heard you’re not too bad at it. As I’ve never practiced that sport myself, I recommend you to choose this challenge.

6. Give me one of your hair lock as a gift. Samson’s strength came from his long hair. I think it works the same way with you. Then, I can make a key ring with it, which will bring me power for the rest of my life.

7. Beat me at FIFA13. You can choose the teams but, anyway trust me, there is no way you can make it.

8. Score a more-than-30-meter-backflip-goal in an official game. Just kidding… this is not realistic.

9. Let me slap you in the face, without saying a word… and in public obviously.

10. Offer a bare-chested dedicated photo of you to my girlfriend. Frankly, among all of those challenges, I have to confess it’s not my favorite. I’m getting fed up to see twinkles in her eyes when you take off your jersey at the end of a game.

11. Manage to have Neymar sign at PSG during the 2013 summer transfer window.

12. Simply ask me to let you have this domain name for free… but face to face and – as a tribute to Guillaume – in French obviously.

The guy’s got chutzpah, we’ll give him that. Challenging Zlatan to a taekwondo duel with no experience or practice? That’s a suicide note right there. The squatters parents will be getting a special delivery courtesy of Zlatan somewhere akin to Brad Pitt’s little surprise at the end of Se7en.

Of the twelve challenges, we definitely definitely want it to be ‘9’.

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8 Comments

  1. MJ says:

    what a man!

  2. slim.charles says:

    LOL .. I beat a newly formed political party to registering their domain name a couple of years ago. They eventually paid me 10k to give up the name.

    PS … I would love to see number 9 as well :)

  3. C says:

    Cool idea, but I really doubt Zlatan gives a flying fuck about the domain in question.

  4. porcelain sandwich says:

    Wow, this cyber-squatting seems like a sweet gig. Might just set up a few hundred sites and wait for the money to come rolling in.

  5. Ty says:

    Did his goal against England not count as number 8 already? Since he was not playing for PSG?? haha

  6. Terry Shedingham says:

    There’s a potential Merchant of Venice-style loophole in ‘9’, as it only mentions verbal retaliation…

  7. Jarren says:

    Yes, I fear for the guy if Zlatan picked #9.

    There’s a whole world of loophole-related hurt in store with that one.

    But yeah, does Zlatan even give a shit about having his own official website?

    Surely PSG fans go on psg.fr site to get info, and Swedes get their Zlatan related news from svenskfotboll.se?

    I know many footballers have their own (sometimes hilariously egomaniacal) websites, but to be honest Zlatan doesn’t strike me as the type of character who spends much time worrying about such trivialities…

  8. Si says:

    @Ty – number 8, like the rest of the list and the entire concept, is a joke (“Just kidding… this is not realistic” gives number 8 away – it is meant to be tongue-in-cheek).

    The site is simply a nod to the Chuck Norris-esque persona that Zlatan has constructed for himself. And it is brilliant.

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