Apple keeps the right to iTunes.co.uk domain

Apple has received the support of the High Courts in United Kingdom after the UK domain registrar awarded the company right to the domain name iTunes.co.uk. The domain’s previous owner, CyberBritain had made a plea for a hearing in the issue and was attempting to gain a judicial review into Nominet’s decision to grant Apple the domain earlier this year. Nominet said that CyberBritain’s registration was ‘abusive’ and took ‘unfair advantage’ of Apple.

In fact, the original owner CyberBritain’s CEO Benjamin Cohen himself had admitted trying to sell it to Apple’s rival Napster and then trying to sell it to Apple for £50,000. This also went against him massively. Even the high court ruled that the CyberBritain’s review application was ‘flawed, late, and unnecessary’, given that Nominet already has an appeals process, which Cohen had failed to use.

Benjamin Cohen has now said that he is looking towards the option available to him while Nominet goes ahead to recover its costs. CyberBritain said in a statement: “CyberBritain is currently reviewing the decision and is strongly considering making an application for an oral hearing. We refute Nominet’s allegation that it was an unnecessary action and hope that in the case of an oral hearing being pursued, the inherent unfairness of Nominet’s dispute resolution service becomes apparent.”

Nominet on their part believes that the case should now be closed considering everything has settled down finally.

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