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Apple Threatens Owner of iTunes Domain
By Ian Betteridge, ExtremeiPod
Apple has taken steps to take ownership
of the iTunes.co.uk domain name from its current owner,
with the company formally complaining to Nominet, the UK domain
name registrar, that it is entitled to the domain.
According to a report on The Register, Apple has been attempting
to claim the domain from its current owner, Benjamin Cohen, since
November, when its solicitors began sending Cohen letters requesting
that he turn over the domain to them. The site currently forwards
to a music search engine at Cohen's CyberBritain site.
However, it appears that Apple may have little chance of gaining
ownership of the domain without buying it from Cohen, as it was
registered on 7 November 2000 – over a month before Apple
applied for the trade mark on iTunes. Cohen claimed that he had
no idea that Apple was intending to build an iTunes service at
the time of his registration.
Although ownership of a trademark is not essential to being granted
ownership of a web site, the fact that Cohen has been trading
using the site since long before Apple's plans became clear means
he is likely to win an appeal.
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