The Olympic Committee wants to get its own domains

Members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have expressed their desire to obtain top-level domains associated with the Olympic Games.

To this end, IOC members approached ICANN and requested that the words “Olympic” and “Olympiad” be reserved for registration under the New TLD program.

Obtaining top-level domains for the Olympic movement was described as one of the elements of the campaign to popularize the Olympic movement as a whole.

The IOC thus requested that ICANN protect domain names related to the Olympics.