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Originally Posted by Paul
Think the guy in question does have a case from what I have been reading, he registered his domain in 2000 and I-Tunes didn't launch till 2004 during all which time he used the site redirect traffic to a music search engine. It's not as though he bought the domain, didn't use it and then tried to sell it to Apple after it had sat dormant for 4 years.
From El Reg
I think the bit in red is what is causing the problem and why he was forced to hand it over to Apple.
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To be honest though I don't have a lot of sympathy for him since he was only using it as a redirect and wasn't hosting a full blown site on it. |
He originally had a music search engine on there, wanted the name "tunes.co.uk" which was already taken so it didnt take much effort to think of internet tunes and then abbreviate that to i-tunes". Having run the domain for at least 3 years before Apple wanted it, I tend to think he's got a very good case for keeping it. Sadly but unfortunately most domain name hosters seem to side with the big guns in these cases. Hope he wins though.