Geneva - The family of the late US rock legend, Jimi Hendrix, have won a case at an international panel to evict the holder of the Internet address www.jimihendrix.com, UN arbitrators said yesterday. The family of the musician, who died in 1970, filed the case in May at the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) against Mr Denny Hammerton of Minneola, Florida, who had been the first to register the address as an Internet domain.
WIPO, which runs an arbitration system that evicts cybersquatters or net users who register famous names in the hope of making a quick buck, said the site name had been registered in bad faith and ordered Mr Hammerton to transfer ownership of it to Hendrix's family.