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Article: Domain Name Owners Can Keep Their Domain Names - with Assistance Of U.S. Federal Courts.
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- PR Newswire
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- December 6, 2001
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WASHINGTON -- In an important decision issued yesterday by a U.S. federal court, it was ruled that a domain name owner who has lost a domain name in an Internet ICANN proceeding can obtain a U.S. court decision to permit him to keep the name. The decision was issued in a lawsuit that was filed to overturn a decision of the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO"), a Swiss organization which has been granted decision- making authority by the Internet governing body, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). In a decision in July of 2000, WIPO had decided that the domain name corinthians.com should be transferred to a Brazilian corporation named ...