bmi british midland aren’t the airline to have had cybersquatting trouble.
Qantas had to battle to get qantas.co.nz from a professional cybersquatting company. easyJet actually lost their case against the bloke who was selling ink cartridge refilling at easy-jet.com and ending up having to buy him out. And Kuwait Airways are still fighting a legal battle with a bloke in India for kuwaitairways.com.
I think the battle for baa.com was the funniest though. The arguments between the two parties’ lawyers included such classic one liners as
having registered the domain name in 1995 ostensibly as a site devoted to sheep and woolly resources
it is also a well known English dictionary word, being the onomatopoeic representation of a sheep or lamb bleating
