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To: Dealer who wrote (29102)	8/16/2000 12:55:14 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 35685

Dealer... Just call me "Mr President.Com" iskey Wednesday August 16 12:31 PM ET IKEA Wins Eviction of Cybersquatter From Web Site GENEVA (Reuters) - Swedish retail furniture firm IKEA has won a ruling to evict a cybersquatter from an Internet Web site containing the company's name. U.N. arbitrators ruled on Wednesday that the cybersquatter from Canada must give up the domain name www.e-ikea.com because it was registered in bad faith and was confusingly similar to the trademark of IKEA, the world's largest furniture retailer. The Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which runs an arbitration system to evict cybersquatters or Internet users who register famous names in hope of making quick profits, also said the site's holder had failed to prove a legitimate interest in it. A WIPO panel ordered the Technology Education Center based in Edmonton, Canada, which had been first to register the site, to quit it, according to a statement from the agency. As domain names have become more valuable with the meteoric rise of the Internet, a market has emerged for opportunists to grab net addresses simply by being there first in the current system which is largely first-come, first-served. The fast-track arbitration system of WIPO, the specialized U.N. copyright and intellectual property agency, allows firms and individuals to avoid costly lawsuits in cases when mischief is the obvious motive or serious money is at stake. WIPO has received more than 1,000 cases related to disputed domain names since its arbitration system began last year. Decisions were made in more than half of the cases, some 80 percent of which resulted in favor of the complainants. Companies that have won back their names from alleged cybersquatters through WIPO so far include Christian Dior (DIOR.PA), Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE), Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) and Nike Inc (NYSE:NKE - news). WIPO has also ruled in favor of celebrities, including Hollywood film star Julia Roberts and British rock band Jethro Tull, to evict cybersquatters. Roberts and Jethro Tull succeeded where British pop star Sting failed as his attempt to win back sting.com from an American who had registered it first was denied last month by WIPO because it said sting was ``a common English word''. Tim@nobody gets the best of Fred C.Dobbs.com