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Barcelona.com was registered in 1996 by a husband and wife for a portal site for information about Barcelona. Contrary to its own guidelines for judging disputes, on 4 August 2000, the WIPO decided to transfer Barcelona.com to the city of Barcelona.
http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinion.pdf/021396.P.pdf
Decision overturning a lower court upholding an ICANN UDRP decision to transfer barcelona.com to the City of Barcelona. The court ruled that it would not grant ICANN UDRP decisions any deference. [Adobe Acrobat format]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/05/court_rules_against_barcelona_com/
"A Spanish travel site is considering an appeal against a US court's decision to strip it of its domain name." By Tim Richardson. [Register]
http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2000/d2000-0505.html
Text of decision to transfer Barcelona.com from Barcelona.com Inc. to Excelentisimo Ayuntamiento de Barcelona by panelist Marino Porzio.
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