Nets.com owners want $5 million from the Brooklyn Nets for their domain name

The Nets do not own the Internet domain name Nets.com, and whoever does has been playing a yearslong joke on the team’s fans.

Jane Hill, 69, of Santa Fe, a former fine-arts photographer and a Bard College graduate, is the person behind one of the biggest mysteries in the history of the Nets.

The Nets have strongly rejected the $5 million price tag Hill put on the domain name.

“Our website is BrooklynNets.com, and our fans know this is our site,” said Barry Baum, a team spokesman. “Brooklyn Nets is our brand, and we have no interest in Nets.com, despite the shameful efforts of the registrant to attempt to sell us this domain name for seven figures."