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Cybersquatter Ordered To Give Up iTunes.co.uk

Posted by Zonk on from the good-try-though dept.

DigitumDei writes "Originally reported on Slashdot last year when Apple accused Benjamin Cohen of being a cybersquatter, the UK Internet registry has now ordered Cohen to give up the domain to Apple. Nominet ruled that Cohen had made an "abusive registration," and that he "is using the domain name in a way which has confused people or businesses into believing that the domain name is registered to, operated or authorized by, or otherwise connected with the complainant."

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  1. Re:These stories always piss me off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, there's two reasons:

    1. Domain main names are not property.
    2. iTunes is a trademark.

    Put simply, this phisher is playing off surfers trying to use someone else's trademark as a domain name. Not complicated.