The barcelona.com case drags on

Joan Nogueras, who finally won last month - after vast expense - a US appeal court case against the Barcelona City Council in barcelona.com v BCC, is still pondering the future of his once and future domain name. And my, has the whole idea of 'domain name' moved on since he bought this one - in 1995 - and since Barcelona City Council tried to take it off him - March 2000.

"Now....they can still go to US Supreme Court...or sue us in Spain...or....", he writes. But he is hoping to have the name back "sometime this year...but who knows". I suppose it depends just how much more the BCC is willing to spend on international management consultants - and whether they're still into the game of fabricating evidence to make any such expenditure worthwhile.