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City of Cork, Ireland, Loses Battle for Cork.EU

Via OUT-LAW.com.

The city of Cork will have to take a Dutch company to arbitration if it wants to continue to fight for the cork.eu domain name. The City Council of Ireland's second largest city lost its arbitration case against .eu domain registry EURid.

Cork.eu was registered by Traffic Web Holding (TWH), a company with a Benelux trade mark on the term 'cork'. TWH applied for the domain on 5th January of this year. Cork City Council filed its application on 11th January but argued that it should be awarded the domain because it filed supporting documentation before TWH did. The arbitration panel rejected that argument.

posted by Fergie @ 8/02/2006 08:10:00 AM