The dispute that arose a couple of months ago of the Estate of CS Lewis challenging the Scottish family that bought the domain name narnia.mobi for their eleven year old boy has been resolved with the estate winning the domain name.

An Edinburgh couple have lost a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis over a web domain name. The estate, which owns the copyright to Lewis’ work complained to WIPO who ruled that the domain name should be transferred to C.S. Lewis (Pte) Ltd.

The family is outraged according to media reports and claim WIPO ignored their evidence. Ms Fergusson, the mother, said: “We have not done anything illegal or wrong, we were perfectly entitled to have this domain name.

“There was three months in which they could have registered this. There was a private period for any trademark holder to register any .mobi domain name when they went on sale in 2006.

“We did not buy ours until after that three-month period had expired and it was open for public sale.”

Media reports are available from:

• news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7522240.stm
• www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4386949.ece
• www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2407823.0.Edinburgh_couple_lose_Narnia_website_battle.php

The WIPO decision is available from www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2008/d2008-0821.html.