Some guy who was annoyed with Guinness beer registered a slew of domain names like guinness-really-sucks.com. Guinness paid WIPO their $2000 and took them all away.
"Pokey.org was given to a 12 year old kid as a birthday present from his father 6 mos ago. Now Prema, owners of Gumby and Pokey are trying to shut it down." [Slashdot]
"It seems that the creator of Gumby and Pokey found out what the legal department was up to, and put an end to the nonsense. The legal dept. in full CYA mode claimed that they didn't know it was a kid." [Slashdot]
"A judge ruled in a lawsuit about the alleged illegal transfer of the domain name 'sex.com' that URLs do not qualify as property, at least under current law." News and archived discussion. [Slashdot]
"An American businessman will have to go to the UN to defend his right to the URL southafrica.com, as the South African government says it has a right to the domain." News and reader comments. [Slashdot]