A handful of years ago, we remember reading some obnoxious story about parents buying the domain names of their children's names — before they were even born. Oh wait, it wasn't that long ago — it was last year! There's the case of baby Bennett Pankow, whose parents refused to even name him until they were sure BennettPankow.com was available. (Bennett's parents are also the answer to the question, "What's more annoying than parents with double-wide Bugaboo strollers?")

Now comes a new, barely exciting twist on the whole "web URLs for kids" trend: Parents who buy their children domain names, and then get sued for copyright infringement!

An Edinburgh father who bought a website domain name for his son is facing a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis.

Richard Saville-Smith paid £70 for the name www.narnia.mobi so his son Comrie, 10, who is a CS Lewis fan, could use it for his e-mail address.

But now CS Lewis (Pte) wants the name for itself.

A complaint has been lodged with the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Mr Saville-Smith's wife Gillian, who is a poet, said: "We were saving it as a surprise for our little boy's birthday - to coincide with the release of the new Narnia film - so that he could have one of the coolest e-mail addresses in the world.

"Our whole family are great admirers of CS Lewis and he must be turning in his grave about all this." [BBC]