WIPO has ruled that the Crikey owners should control the crikey.com internet domain. From The Age:
"Crikey" is an exclamation commonly used to warn of an impending crocodile attack.
But according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, it also now has an official secondary meaning: referring to the Crikey online news and gossip e-zine.
WIPO has ruled that the Crikey owners should control the crikey.com internet domain, after a virtual real estate battle spanning more than five years.
An arbitrator found that the previous owner, a mysterious man calling himself Martin Hallier of Burwood, Victoria, had bought the domain in bad faith, with the intention to "cause mischief or obtain an advantage".
Owners of the Crikey e-zine were continually frustrated by the fact that their readers would go to crikey.com, rather than crikey.com.au, when searching for the site.
Read more here and read the WIPO Administrative Panel's decision here.
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