Chicago, IL (AHN) - Chicago City and MBA student Stephen Frayne Jr. are in a legal battle over the domain name for the 2016 Olympics.

Frayne registered in 2004 the domain name chicago2016.com. He was two years ahead before Chicago launched its bid to host the summer games in 2016. Over the past few years, Frayne got the rights to it together with 40 other online addresses that combine city names and years.

It includes tokyo2016.com. The Japanese capital city is a competitor of Chicago, along with Madrid and Rio de Janeiro for the host city bid to be selected by the International Olympic Committee on Oct. 2, 2009. On Sept. 4, Prague, the capital of Czech Republic, joined the race by filing a bid.

Patrick Sandusky, spokesman for Chicago 2016, told the Chicago Tribune, "We certainly see chicago2016.com as the logical default domain for our site, and we believe having someone else control it is misleading for people seeking information about Chicago's bid."

To settle the issue, the city filed a complaint with an international arbitration body, which is expected to come out with a decision soon. Frayne filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court in Chicago to stop the arbitration proceeding and protect his stake on the two domain names of chicago2016.com and tokyo2016.com.

Frayne said he launched the portal to be a venue for online discussion of Chicago's Olympic hosting bid. He will open a similar website for Tokyo. "This case represents an important battle for First Amendment rights and the use of the Internet as a forum to foster debate over a topic that deserves to be discussed... I'm not interested in selling, but in public discussion," the 29-year old student of Northwestern University stated in his lawsuit.