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Court Orders Owner Of Peta.org To Give Up Domain
"According to Boston.com a federal judge ordered PETA.org parody site to relinquish their Web address over to PETA.com." [Slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/yro/00/06/21/1524208.shtml
Top/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names/peta.org

Pokey.Org set free!
"It seems that the creator of Gumby and Pokey found out what the legal department was up to, and put an end to the nonsense. The legal dept. in full CYA mode claimed that they didn't know it was a kid." [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/older/9842112463.shtml
Top/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names/pokey.org

Pokey.org Attacked by Prema
"Pokey.org was given to a 12 year old kid as a birthday present from his father 6 mos ago. Now Prema, owners of Gumby and Pokey are trying to shut it down." [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/older/00001029.shtml
Top/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names/pokey.org

URLs Aren't Property?
"A judge ruled in a lawsuit about the alleged illegal transfer of the domain name 'sex.com' that URLs do not qualify as property, at least under current law." News and archived discussion. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/27/2149230.shtml
Top/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names/sex.com

Sex.com Returned to Original Owner
News and discussion forum. [Slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/05/0448236
Top/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names/sex.com

South Africa Wants SouthAfrica.com
"An American businessman will have to go to the UN to defend his right to the URL southafrica.com, as the South African government says it has a right to the domain." News and reader comments. [Slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/03/1333202
Top/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names/southafrica.com

Barbie Demands A Domain
"In an ongoing legacy of tormenting Web site owners, Mattel Inc. is threatening legal action against my wife and I for planning to make a non-business all-girl video game clan site entitled thebarbies.com." Story and discussion board. [Slashdot
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/04/1343255
Top/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names/thebarbies.com

Segfault and User Friendly threatened
Article about Segfault and User Friendly that mentions the theos.com dispute. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/24/2131201.shtml
Top/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names/theos.com

theos.com Dispute Ended
Article about the end of the dispute. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/26/2350220.shtml
Top/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names/theos.com

Slashdot: Toys R Us Isn't Toying With Gus
News and discussion.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/01/31/0133258.shtml
Top/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names/toysrgus.com