The Chronicles of Narnia.mobi

PC Magazine reports that a Scottish couple was ordered to hand over the narnia.mobi domain name to the estate of C.S. Lewis, after an intellectual property agency ruled that the couple acted in bad faith when purchasing the address.

Richard Saville-Smith purchased narnia.mobi in September 2006. But here’s what actually happened: Before opening up the .mobi domain to average Web users, the article reports, ICANN imposed a sunset period to give trademark holders an opportunity to buy .mobi

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