A Green Bay family's outsized request for compensation from the Packers and Microsoft for an internet web address contributed to an international panel's decision to award the site to the team.

Chris and Julie Harris registered the titletowntech.com domain on Sept. 18, 2017, one month before the Packers and Microsoft announced the TitletownTech initiative.

The Packers and Microsoft arranged to buy the site for $5,000 via an anonymous third party, but the Harrises backed out of the deal

Michael Wienckowski, the Harrises' stepson who wanted to start the business, said in an email that the family received nothing. He said he did not trust the third-party offer.

"The $5,000 offer did not come from the Packers. It came from a third party that I did not deem as trustworthy," Wienckowski wrote. "I backed out of the $5,000 offer before the Packers announced TitletownTech for that reason."

Their counteroffer increased significantly: from $5,000 to $750,000 cash, eight Lambeau Field box seats for life, two parking passes, eight Microsoft Surface Pros and Microsoft software for life.

On May 28, a panelist representing the World Intellectual Property Organization ordered the Harrises to transfer the domain to the Packers and Microsoft, saying the domain was registered in bad faith.

GeekWire first reported on the case this week. The Packers declined to comment.

On Sept. 19, one year and one day after the Harrises registered the website, the Packers and Microsoft President Brad Smith jointly unveiled the website, managing director and logo for TitletownTech.

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When disputes over internet addresses arise, complainants who make good-faith efforts to acquire a domain name without success can make their case to WIPO. The organization then can review the case and decide whether a domain is being held in "bad faith."

Bad faith can be determined by the timing of a registration, a registered domain name infringes upon a trademarked term, or if it was registered not for legitimate use but for the purpose of selling, renting or transferring the domain name to the trademark holder.

According to the arbitration dispute summary, the family said they registered the domain in September 2017 while one of their children was looking at launching a computer consulting business for small- and medium-sized businesses called TitletownTech Solutions.

The family originally agreed to the $5,000 purchase price until the team unveiled plans for the TitletownTech innovation center Oct. 19.

On Oct. 24, Chris and Julie Harris filed their counteroffer, one they acknowledged was excessive, but was made out of frustration with the way they said the team had treated them in negotiations. The Harrises said they "felt as though an organization that they admire greatly… [was] being coy and trying to trick them."

The panelist ordered TitletownTech.com transferred to the Packers and Microsoft, citing the "suspicious" timing of the Harrises' registration, the excessive value of their counteroffer compared to their investment in registering the domain name and developing a basic website for it.