The Chronicles of Narnia.mobi

Narnia.mobi -- a thoughtful gift for an 11-year-old boy's birthday or an open-and-shut case of cybersquatting? A Scottish couple was ordered to hand over the narnia.mobi domain name to the estate of C.S. Lewis after an intellectual property agency ruled that the couple acted in bad faith when purchasing the address. Richard Saville-Smith, who runs the Saville-Ferguson media and PR agency with his wife Gillian, purchased narnia.mobi in September 2006. Created in 2006 by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), .mobi is a top-level domain for mobile devices. Before opening up the .mobi domain to average Web users, ICANN imposed a sunset period to give trademark holders an opportunity to snatch up .mobi domains relating to the products to which they owned the rights. That sunset period expired on... [read full story]