A father bought narnia.mobi for his son who is a fan of the Chronicles of Narnia series. Now the estate of CS Lewis has decided they want it. CS Lewis never registered the domain, therefore they never owned it but now would like to have it.
Apparently Baker & McKenzie, lawyers for the CS Lewis estate, filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
There are two interesting domain situations with Microsoft, the actual domain microsoft.com was not at dispute, however two versions have been. First, the domain micros0ft.com with a zero instead of the letter ‘o’ was registered by the company Zero Micro Software which later abandoned the domain after the registration was suspended when Microsoft filed a protest. The domain registration eventually expired and Vision Enterprises of Roanoke, TX registered the domain and apparently expired in 12/2007. Currently the domain is regisitered for another year however the whois domain lookup does not reveal the registrant.
In a second incident, a 17-year-old high-school student named Mike Rowe registered MikeRoweSoft.com. Microsoft then contacted him to give up his domain asserting confusion among the public for a name that sounded like theirs. Long story short, Microsoft now owns the domain name.
The domain name mcdonalds.com has an interesting story. A writer for Wired magazine was writing an article on domain names and their value and registered the McDonalds domain name.
McDonalds now has the domain in their possession, as it was a famous mark.
The domain name candyland.com was registered by an adult entertainment business. Hasbro, the maker of the CandyLand board game sued the company to obtain an injunction.
The company that registered the domain was the Internet Entertainment Group (IEG) that placed sexually explicit material at the domain.
Hasbro claimed that the use of the domain name candyland.com was an infringement of their Candy Land game trademark, asserting that the public associated the name with fun and wholesomeness.
IEG obtained the domain adultplayground.com and Hasbro now has candyland.com
