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from www.cnet.com – Apple has won its dispute with a domain name squatter and now is in control of iphonesex4s.com and six other names that contain the term “iPhone.”
Apple filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization earlier this month, aiming to gain control of the names.
The names still serve up sites pushing porn–so you’ve been warned–but Apple terminated the case this morning. All seven names are now controlled by brand protection agency MarkMonitor, the company that handles domain names for most big companies, including Apple.
Domain Name Wire, which first reported the story, said Apple dropped the case after the domain name owner agreed to turn over the domain names.
The other names involved are:
iphonecamforce.com
iphonecam4s.com
iphoneporn4s.com
iphonexxxforce.com
iphone4s.com
porn4iphones.com
The WIPO was created, in part, to curtain “cybersquatting,” which is the practice of buying up domains with names similar to companies, products, and services owned by others. The organization, which is an agency within the United Nations, was created in 1967 as part of a larger program to curtail intellectual property theft and misuse.
from www.macrumors.com – Earlier this month, we noted that Apple had filed a complaint under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) in an attempt to gain control of several iPhone-related domain names that had been registered by another party and set to forward to a porn site.
Most notable among these domain names was iPhone4S.com, the highest-profile domain associated with Apple’s new iPhone hardware.
Domain Name Wire now reports that Apple has won control over the domain names in question, as the UDRP case has been terminated following the defendant’s agreement to turn the domains over to Apple.
Apple terminated the case after the owner of the domains agreed to turn the domain names over. The whois record for the domains changed to brand protection company MarkMonitor today.
MarkMonitor is the brand protection agency used by Apple and a number of other large companies to anonymously manage such holdings as domain names. As a word of warning to our readers, the domain names in question continue to forward to the porn site at this time, as the site continues to point to the previous owner’s DNS server settings and only the various contact information fields for the site are appearing under MarkMonitor at this time.
Of the seven domain names, Apple is only expected to utilize iPhone4S.com, which it will presumably redirect to the company’s main iPhone page at some point in the relatively near future. Apple will likely simply shut down the other six domain names while preventing others from using them.