Federal trademark protection for name filed last Wednesday

Corresponding web domain names registered on same day

Points to plan for a Gilbert-Gores MLS team downtown

Palace Sports & Entertainment filed for federal trademark protection for the "Motor City Soccer Club" name last week and made a grab for five corresponding web domain names.

The Tom Gores-owned entertainment company moved to protect the name last Wednesday, which further points to plans by Gores and Dan Gilbert, founder and chairman of Quicken Loans Inc., to bring a Major League Soccer expansion team to downtown Detroit.

The email, [email protected], registered last week with the domain site GoDaddy for new website names including motorcitysc.com, motorcitysc.net, motorcitysc.org, motorcitysoccerclub.net and motorcitysoccerclub.org.

The company filed in July for federal trademark protection for the "Detroit City Soccer Club" name and last year registered for more than a dozen related web domain names.

Gores and Gilbert proposed a $1 billion stadium and mixed-use development to be constructed on the site of the half-built Wayne County Consolidated Jail on Gratiot Avenue at I-375.