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John Galliano has had a pretty bad week—what with all the leaked videos of him declaring his love for Hitler and all—but here's one bit of good news for the beleaguered designer: he's won back the website galliano.fr from internet squatters. Reuters reports: "A U.N.-appointed arbitrator ruled Galliano had trademark rights to his internationally recognized name and ordered the disputed Internet domain name galliano.fr transferred to him within 10 days. Jean-Claude Combaldieu, the arbitrator named by the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), found the French-based operator Web Intelligence had misused the site, which it had registered in May 2006." [Reuters]