The chaps over at the World Intellectual Property Organisation have ruled in favour of Ticketmaster in what is being dubbed a 'typosquatting' internet domain-name dispute. The ticketing giant objected to a company who had registered the domain name www.ticketfmaster.com and then pointed that URL in the direction of rival ticketing websites, from which, presumably, the domain name owners earned a commission.
Ticketmaster took their grievance to the Geneva based IP body who have ordered the company who own that domain, US-based Domainstand.com, to hand the misspelt URL over to the ticketing firm. The ruling was made on the basis that Domainstand had deliberately registered the URL to try and capture Ticketmaster customers with bad typing skills - ie they had registered the URL in "bad faith".
It' not the first cybersquatting case Ticketmaster have taken to WIPO, though most previous cases have been against variations of the ticketing site's domain rather than misspellings, eg yourticketmaster.info.