The parents of 11 year old boy registered narnia.mobi back in Sept 06 so that their son could use it for email. Fast forward to 2008 and the World Intellectual Property Organisation rules in favor of the C. S. Lewis estate.
The mother, Gillian Fergusson told the BBC that she was shocked by the decision. “We provided very clear statements from the internet registration company saying that we had not tried to make any money and yet somehow it has just simply ignored the evidence.”
Apparently, registering an e-mail address for a child is not legitimate use!
Ms Fergusson said: “We have not done anything illegal or wrong, we were perfectly entitled to have this domain name.
“There was three months in which they could have registered this. There was a private period for any trademark holder to register any .mobi domain name when they went on sale in 2006.
“We did not buy ours until after that three-month period had expired and it was open for public sale.”
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Tags: cs lewis, narnia, WIPO
