The authority of the UK's domain name registrar has been called into question after the owner of the domain name iTunes.co.uk investigated what rights the registrar had to make him hand the URL to Apple.
Benjamin Cohen, who registered the iTunes.co.uk address three years before Apple launched its popular music store, was ordered to transfer rights to the URL to Apple by .uk registrar Nominet in March.
Nominet, Cohen contends, has no authority to make him transfer iTunes.co.uk - and he has a statement from the Department of Trade and Industry to prove it.
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