Apple wins iTunes cybersquatting battle

[Admin]

Apple wins iTunes cybersquatting battle But UK domain owner considering an appeal...

http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39128714,00.htm

 

[grantw]

I havent had a chance to read through this properly yet but what a joke. How can something be judged as an abusive registration when it was regd before the trademark was in place and years before the service began :

http://www.nominet.org.uk/DisputeResolution/Decisions/Drs02223Itunes.html

Total joke. Going by the recent DRS decisions if I was to set up a company called sex, spend a lot of money on advertising and was ranked higher in google for the term 'sex' then I would have every right to make a claim on sex.co.uk ?????

Grant