America Online has won an arbitration battle against Aimster, and the music software company must now hand over aimster.com, aimstertv.com and aimstertv.net to the online giant. By Kieren McCarthy.

Bruce Springsteen has lost his domain name dispute after a WIPO panel ruled 2-1 in favour of notorious domain hoarder Jeff Burgar. By Andrew Smith.

Tyre retailer Canadian Tire is taking compatriot Mick Mcfadden to WIPO over his Web site, which the corporation feels infringes on its trademark. Except that Mick owns www.crappytire.com. By Kieren McCarthy.

In what must be one of the weirdest ever domain dispute cases, Canadian Tire has lost the battle to extend its trademark to the words "crappy tire". By Kieren McCarthy.

Ferrero wants to protect its brand in cyberspace, as Austrian kids' charity kinder.at recently discovered. Concerned that the organisation has taken the little-known German word kinder (children) as its domain name, Ferrero has run whining to WIPO. By...

Some bright empiricist from Root-Core has discovered that anyone can log into their Hotmail account and then call messages from any other Hotmail account by crafting a URL with the second account's username and a valid message number. By Thomas C Greene.

A Canadian artist has won the right to the www.armani.com domain, following a remarkable hearing at arbitrator WIPO. By Kieren McCarthy.

"Movie actor Kevin Spacey has lost a landmark court battle over ownership of www.kevinspacey.com." By Kieren McCarthy.

Passport authenticates a user for access to his credit cards and Web site accounts and passwords, to make life easy for on-line merchants and shoppers, and hackers and identity thieves. By Thomas C. Greene.

Article about Reuters' refusal to relinquish reters.com to Mr. Stanley Reters. By Kieren McCarthy.