Interesting precedent: Carlos Slim retrieves internet name

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, the second richest man in the world, on Wednesday recovered a web address with your name, a man of Indonesia tried to sell $ 55 million and threatened to link to a porn site.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) United Nations said that an arbitrator of disputes over Internet addresses determined that the site was registered in bad faith and should be transferred at no cost to the employer.

Documents filed by attorneys Slim, cited by WIPO, showed that the owner of the address, Ahmad Rusli, Jakarta, threatened to link to a porn site if you did not receive the money he wanted.

Rusli said in an e-mail to the arbitrator of the dispute that the threat only sought the attention of Slim and had registered the URL to protect it for the Mexican billionaire.

Slim, who owns a business empire led by the giant phone company America Movie and Telmex landline, you already have an own website,containing his biography and other personal and business.

Helu is the maternal surname of the employer, a descendant of Lebanese immigrants.

In March last year, U.S. business magazine Forbes put Slim as the second richest man in the world, behind investor Warren Buffet and ahead of computer magnate Bill Gates.