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CORANTE John Yunker is founder of Byte Level Research and author of the widely acclaimed book, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies and editor of Global By Design.

He has covered the emerging field of Web globalization for half a decade and has published a wide range of reports dedicated to best practices in Web localization and internationalization.
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December 16, 2002

Another Country, Another Domain Name

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Posted by John Yunker

From .ar (Argentina) to .za (South Africa), there are more than 100 country code top level domain names (ccTLDs) out there just ready for the taking. And many people have taken them, well ahead of many multinationals.

So what happens when domain names collide? We go to arbitation. If you've got a few minutes to spare, take a look through the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) cases. They're quite entertaining, if you're not the one participating. For example, Toyota recently won a round against Toyoto. And then there is Virgin Enterprises Limited v. Steve Peter H S Kok and James Tan and Kellogg Company v. Luis Álvarez and Pizza Hut International, LLC v. Kim Beom Sung.

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