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"Sir Richard Branson has gained control over the website URL &amp;#039;richardbranson.xxx&amp;#039; following a legal victory. The Virgin boss seized the adult-branded domain from Australian Sean Truman after lodging a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), The Register reports. The controversial new .xxx web domain names went on sale in December last year to create an internet &amp;quot;red light zone&amp;quot;. Companies and celebrities were given a period of rights to register for protection against association with the URLs, but &amp;quot;cybersquatter&amp;quot; Truman moved before Branson. However, a WIPO investigation ruled that Truman filed the application in &amp;quot;bad faith&amp;quot;, and was thus denied full rights to the domain. Virgin has now ordered the Australian to hand over full control of the explicitly suffixed URL.  &amp;quot;We have a complaint against the owner of richardbranson.xxx. We spend a lot of time protecting the Virgin brand and the Richard Branson name and increasingly this takes us online,&amp;quot; said a Virgin spokesperson.  &amp;quot;We do see this as a growing problem with the changes to top-level domains and we [are] not alone.&amp;quot; The .xxx URLs were introduced on December 6, 2011. Celebrities and companies seeking protection were required to pay between $150 and $300 (\u00A3100 to \u00A3200) depending on their domain provider. &amp;gt; Richard Branson organises Aussie celeb dinner "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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