{"id":14016,"date":"2024-06-03T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegram-username-dodopizza-sold-for-70000-ton\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T14:54:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:54:05","slug":"telegram-username-dodopizza-sold-for-70000-ton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegram-username-dodopizza-sold-for-70000-ton\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram Username @dodopizza Sold for 70,000 TON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The user elector.ton is selling the username @dodopizza and its associated channel on the Fragment platform <a href=\"https:\/\/fragment.com\/username\/dodopizza\">for $1.02 million<\/a> (155,555 TON). Representatives of the eponymous pizza chain have filed a lawsuit against the messaging service Telegram in an attempt to secure ownership of the lot, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.ru\/technology_and_media\/03\/06\/2024\/665b5c4a9a79478523c41b49\">RBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">12 July 2024 | 15:44<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The username @dodopizza <a href=\"https:\/\/tonviewer.com\/transaction\/d47a24ba2cffb3a6606f1d23cd9fde7b974c27f472f7a50b87f6b34c7e5a7374\" title=\"\">was sold<\/a> for 70,000 TON ($505,505 at the time of the transaction). The buyer and their intentions remain unknown.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"saints\/9\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The lawsuit <a href=\"https:\/\/kad.arbitr.ru\/Card\/02626828-77ac-4f31-97b5-91751a6552cc\">was filed<\/a> in the Arbitration Court of the Komi Republic in April. &#8220;Dodo Franchising&#8221; demands that the actions of Telegram FZ-LLC be recognized as acts of unfair competition, that they be granted the name @dodopizza, and that the purchase of usernames identical or confusingly similar to trademark holders&#8217; names be prohibited in the terms of use.<\/p>\n<p>With the cryptocurrency TON, any channel name can be purchased, even if it belongs to a well-known brand. This can lead to extortion cases against rights holders, sometimes for &#8220;enormous sums,&#8221; explains Alexandra Akimova, senior IP and Privacy lawyer at &#8220;Dodo Pizza.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>According to her, Telegram does not respond to rights holders&#8217; requests and does not control the procedure in any way.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The essence of our lawsuit is the existence of such a field of activity for fraudsters, as the current rules of Telegram pose reputational risks for bona fide market participants,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The username @dodopizza was initially acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/tonviewer.com\/EQCNQUAB2kevusCz92kZiNWJVzjtnotO7c2MQ_4VZY7z1XJW\">in November 2022<\/a> for 1,865 TON. In June 2023, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/tonviewer.com\/transaction\/2dd301e638b7a1382f7598f0c30bf5a3ca7f2bba0c7aede7c056ebadf33dab9d\">transferred<\/a> to the address elector.ton. This user also owns a large number of <a href=\"https:\/\/tonviewer.com\/EQDhAiVHFVihy7Wc9zyCZcvirKAvgEwaiTmS3_Ro0hwV6boR?section=nfts\">other usernames and TON DNS<\/a>, including those associated with well-known brands such as @sbertech, @wildberries, @notcoinbot, and others.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the mentioned DODO PIZZA channel has 2,706 subscribers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previously, ForkLog reported that the Telegram username @pavel, purchased for $80,000, was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/telegram-username-gifted-to-pavel-durov-after-80000-sale\">gifted to Pavel Durov.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The user elector.ton is selling the username @dodopizza and its associated channel on the Fragment platform for $1.02 million (155,555 TON). Representatives of the eponymous pizza chain have filed a lawsuit against the messaging service Telegram in an attempt to secure ownership of the lot, reports RBC. 12 July 2024 | 15:44Update: The username @dodopizza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[526,1162,723],"class_list":["post-14016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-court-cases","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"43","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}