Wired: Material Girl Wants Her Good Name - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2000/08/38341 Pop star Madonna, irked when a man paid $20,000 for the rights to the domain Madonna.com and turned it into a porn site, filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization's domain dispute arbitrators. By Craig Bicknell.
CNet: Madonna.com embroiled in domain ownership spat - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-244734.html A pornographer who has registered hundreds of domain names could lose one of the biggest gems in his collection: Madonna.com.
ZDNet: Madonna wants her name back - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-523157.html Singer, songwriter thinks porn site owner Don Parisi is cybersquatting on Madonna.com. By Ben Charny.
Statepaper: Nebraska Hospital Caught in Madonna Trademark Spat - http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2000/08/23/39a423f07 An international trademark dispute involving pop star Madonna and an Internet entrepreneur who runs a famous pornography web site has Lincoln, Nebraska's Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital caught in the middle.
BBC: Madonna wins cyber fight - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/976047.stm Madonna wins the right to use the web site address madonna.com, which was being used as a pornography site.
WIPO Decision: Madonna Ciccone v. Dan Parisi - http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2000/d2000-0847.html Text of WIPO decision to transfer "Madonna.com", a former porn site being donated to Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, to well-known singer Madonna.
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