Goo Goo Dolls Win Domain-Name CaseBy Lars Brandle, LondonPublication: Billboard BulletinDate: Tuesday, May 27 2003The Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has ruled in favor of the Goo Goo Dolls after the act launched proceedings against a pornographic Web site with a "confusingly similar" domain name.The Goo Goo Dolls filed a complaint March 4 againstJohn Zuccarini of the Bahamas, who had registered a site at googoodols.com, a practice known as "typo-squatting." His site automatically linked to another with sexually explicit content and advertisements.WIPO declared tha
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