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In a brilliant victory for domain name owners, a WIPO panel has declared that a Spanish company's attempt to appropriate the domain name FCC.com from its legitimate owner without just compensation constitutes a "Reverse Domain Name Hijacking" attempt.
The Spanish company, FCC Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, had alleged in a WIPO Complaint that the current [...]

Investment advisory publisher The Motley Fool Inc., which owns the domain name Fool.com, has failed in its attempt to appropriate Fools.com without compensation from the domain's original registrant, Domain Works Inc. from Canada.
Domain Works had registered Fools.com in 1998. The company had initially redirected the domain to its corporate website and later set up [...]

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released a sensational press release entitled "Cybersquatting Remains On The Rise With Further Risk To Trademarks From New Registration Practices"
The issues:
The number of cybersquatting disputes filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2006 increased by 25% as compared to 2005.
WIPO sees this as evidence that cybersquatting is [...]

In a recent WIPO arbitration case, the owner of ShangriLa.com lost the domain to an Asian hotel group by the same name.
The panel in charge of the case noted that even though the expression "Shangri-La" had originated in a 1933 novel and has a dictionary meaning, the registrant had also registered the domain fourseason.com, allegedly [...]

Mobile phone company Motorola has failed in its attempt to appropriate the domain name MOTORAZR.com without compensation from the domain's original registrant, Vincent Nguyen of R3 Media.
Nguyen, who runs the phone and gadget review sites SlashPhone and SlashGear, had coined the expression MOTORAZR in July 2004, which led to his registration of MOTORAZR.com for a [...]

Morris Iemma, the Premier of New South Wales (Australia) and leader of the state's Labor Party, has fallen victim to the competing Liberal Party, which registered MorrisIemma.com and recently launched an aggressive pre-election video on the domain.
Mr. Iemma's actual website is located at MorrisIemma.com.au. It is not known why the politician had failed to register [...]

The international law firm Pinsent Masons reports that online betting firm Sportingbet has failed to force the handover of sportingbet.net and sportingbets.biz from its Canadian owner Zubee.com for the second time. Sportingbet failed to establish its rights to the domain.
From the WIPO ruling: