Apple wins another legal battle - this time against a UK cybersquatter

Former teenage dot-com millionaire Benjamin Cohen had something Apple wanted and Apple took him to court to get it back.

Nominet, a UK dispute resolution service, ruled in Apple's favour (don't you just love the way the Brits spell?) today, saying that ownership of the domain in dispute,
iTunes.co.uk, should be transferred to Apple
because Apple holds the iTunes trademark.  Currently, the domain redirects surfers to a shopping site owned by Cohen's company,
CyberBritain.

Cohen called Apple a bully and says he's not a cybersquatter and that he registered the domain months before Apple's trademark application was even published. He also points out that he turned down a cash offer from Apple for the domain in the past, so as not to be accused of trying to profit from Apple's trademark. Still,
Nominet has ordered CyberBritain to hand over the domain. Cohen is, of course,
considering an appeal.

It's important to note Benjamin Cohen, still a young man in his early 20's, is a notorious egotist who once said,
referring to his dot-com days: "Back then,
I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation."

He really makes you want to root for him, doesn't he?

[corrected to reflect that the ruling came from Nominet, not from the UK courts. -LD]