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Article: Gifts Not On The List - The Narnia Decision.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- April 2, 2009
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A World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) panel ordered the transfer of the NARNIA.MOBI domain name to C.S. Lewis (PTE.) Ltd., the owner of the NARNIA trade-mark, after finding that the registrant did not have a legitimate interest in the domain name and had registered the domain name in bad faith.
In September 2006, Richard Saville-Smith registered the domain name NARNIA.MOBI following the close of the sunrise registration period for the dot-mobi rollout. Mr. Saville-Smith, owner of the Saville-Ferguson media and PR agency with his wife, claimed the registration was a future present for his then-nine-year-old son, a fan of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia ...