Nintendo Loses Appeal For WiiU.com Domain

Expect to see a number of unhappy faces at Nintendo headquarters this weekend – at least, wherever Nintendo's legal team sits – as the company has officially lost an appeal with the World Intellectual Property Organization over the rights to the domain name wiiu.com.

Didn't expect to see that one coming, eh?

Nintendo officially filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of wiiu.com in February of this year, but there were a few kinks in the plan even back then. For starters, the unknown owner of the domain first registered it in 2004, well before Nintendo ever debuted or released the original Wii console, let alone the Wii U. It's thought that the name was simply part of a mass registration of four-letter domains and, in this case, the owner struck gold.