Penguin backs down on Katie.com

Penguin Putnam’s decision to rename one of its best-selling books could mean that one of the Net’s oddest domain name battles may be drawing to a close.

The dispute is odd because it is not over ownership of a domain name, but about its use as a book title. It is quite a saga, but in short Katie.com is two things. It is book by Katie Tarbox, in which she writes about how she was molested by a paedophile who she met online while he was posing as a teenage boy.

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