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Article: MADONNA TO MASTER OWN DOMAIN NAME.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2000
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Madonna won the right to use the Web address madonna.com after an international arbitration panel in Geneva, Switzerland, ruled that a pornographer had improperly registered the site to trade off the pop star's name.
The three-member panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization unanimously ordered that Madonna take over the site from New Jersey pornography entrepreneur Dan Parisi. The panel found that Parisi ``lacks rights or legitimate interests in the domain name'' and that the name ``has been registered and used in bad faith.''
Madonna, whose full name ...