After legal fight, 11-year-old ordered to turn over Narnia.mobi domain

By Michael Hatamoto , BetaNews An 11-year-old Scottish boy who received a dream birthday present that later turned into a legal quagmire must now turn over his narnia.mobi domain name back to the estate of C.S. Lewis. Comrie Saville-Smith, who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a fan of the C.S. Lewis Narnia novels, and his parents decided to give him the narnia.mobi dobmain once it became available in September 2006. The .mobi domain was created by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as a top-level domain for mobile sites. Before being opened up to the public, similar to other TLD launches, there was a grace period for trademark holders to reserve domains. The estate of C.S. Lewis, however, did not snap up the domain by the Sept. 22, 2006 deadline, and the Saville-Smith family purchased it four days... [read full story]