.biz battle in High Court. (E-Volve).

Marketing Week, July, 2002 by Robert Dwek

In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, a UK domain name registrar has issued High Court proceedings to halt the transfer of its domain name to a US company.

Internetters launched the action following a decision by the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) -- a body appointed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - to transfer domainregistry.biz to a US company that claims it has registered the name as a trademark. Internetters says the US company does not hold the trademark.

Paul Westley, co-founder of Internetters, says: "We registered 'domainregistry.biz' when the new .biz domains became available, as we thought it was descriptive of our services and a strong generic name.

"We had no idea that a small US...