Tom Cruise wins domain name case

Tom Cruise has won his appeal for the rights to domain name tomcruise.com after it was used for advertising by a cyber-pirate.
A judge for the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) said tomcruise.com had been used to sell goods unconnected with the actor. He added that Cruise fans had been diverted to a different internet site.

The opportunist, identified only as Network Operations Center/Alberta Hot Rods, was ordered to hand the site over to the Mission: Impossible star yesterday.

Cruise is the latest in a long line of celebrities, including Celine Dion and Kevin Spacey, to have battled the U.S.-based Network Operations Center for misuse of their names.
Authors Jeffrey Archer and Michael Crichton are also among the famous names whose names have been used to promote unofficial websites.