By Claudine Beaumont
Published: 12:00PM BST 29 Jul 2009
Facebook has been granted control of the Facebook.ir Iranian domain name after the United Nations ordered its owner to surrender the address.
The United Nation's World Intellectual Property Organisation said that Majid Karimian Ghannad had registered the Facebook.ir domain name "in bad faith", and ruled that he had no right to use the web address. The organisation ordered Mr Ghannad to transfer ownership of the localised domain to Facebook.
Mr Ghannad said that he was using the site to sell book, but the United Nations rejected his claim.
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