{"id":163,"date":"2016-08-28T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2018-01-18T00:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T05:02:52","slug":"las-vegas-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2016\/08\/28\/las-vegas-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Owner Confirms Registration of &#8216;Desert Knights&#8217; and Two Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas, Nevada\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Las Vegas team owner confirms registration of the domain (Internet) name &#8216;Desert Knights&#8217; for his NHL expansion franchise.<\/p>\n<p>According to Amber Dixon of NBC Las Vegas, Owner Bill Foley has confirmed the registration of domain names, including the name &#8220;Desert Knights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Day late but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LasVegas?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LasVegas<\/a> NHL team owner Bill Foley just confirmed by text he has registered domain names that include &#8220;Desert Knights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amber Dixon (@AmberNews3LV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmberNews3LV\/status\/769323791855988736\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A report from <a href=\"http:\/\/detroithockey.net\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DetroitHockey.Net<\/a> on Thursday stated the domain names lasvegasdesertknights.com, vegasdesertknights.com and desertknightshockey.com have already been registered to Moniker Privacy Services. Moniker is also the company that registered the domain for the leagues&#8217; NHL.com.<\/p>\n<p>Foley also confirmed that the team has registered domain names for Silver Knights, and Golden Knights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The name &#8220;Desert Knights&#8221; is not yet the team&#8217;s official nickname. It&#8217;s still possible this &#8220;Knights&#8221; domain registration is just a &#8220;plan B&#8221; in case option &#8220;A&#8221; were to fall through. Foley did confirm earlier this month he was still considering 3 variations of &#8220;hawks&#8221; for the teams&#8217; nickname. The name &#8220;Nighthawks&#8221; is believed to still be on the board as of Aug. 12.<\/p>\n<p>An official nickname is expected to be announced prior to the start of the regular season in early October.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\nAfter nearly 2000 votes &#8220;Desert Knights&#8221; are clear favourite with 50% of the vote, other two ___ Knights tied at 25% <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xMk8Z2fwXK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/xMk8Z2fwXK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Creamer (@sportslogosnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportslogosnet\/status\/769670269359235072\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 27, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Main image credit:<br \/>\nBy Bill Feldberg &#8211; Own work, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=47902997\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC<\/a> BY-SA 4.0,<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=47902997\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=47902997<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas, Nevada\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Las Vegas team owner confirms registration of the domain (Internet) name &#8216;Desert Knights&#8217; for his NHL expansion franchise. According to Amber Dixon of NBC Las Vegas, Owner Bill Foley has confirmed the registration of domain names, including the name &#8220;Desert Knights.&#8221; Day late but #LasVegas NHL team owner Bill Foley just confirmed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,34],"tags":[119,961],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-las-vegas","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}