The High Court in London has rejected an application for a judicial review of a decision concerning the ownership of the itunes.co.uk domain.

In June, Benjamin Cohen - who registered "itunes.co.uk" in November 2000 some three years before Apple registered the name "itunes.com" - announced he was seeking a Judicial Review of Nominet's ruling in March forcing him to hand over his itunes.co.uk domain to Apple.

That ruling decided "that, by associating the domain name with Napster (a competitor of Apple Computers Inc), and that by offering to sell the domain name for sums far in excess of its original costs, the registration of the domain name was abusive".

Originally by The Register - Internet and Law: eCommerce, 4:32 PM

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