Jimi Hendrix [ tickets ]’s family has won its battle against a man who registered the Internet domain name jimihendrix.com and sought a reported $1 million for its return.

On Wednesday (8/2), an arbitrator ruled that ownership of the domain name must be turned over to the family.

Experience Hendrix, the official Jimi Hendrix fan organization owned and operated by Hendrix family members, filed a complaint earlier this year with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against Florida resident Denny Hammerton, according to a WIPO document. In its complaint, Experience Hendrix claimed that Hammerton, who had registered jimihendrix.com in 1996, was a domain-name speculator who purposely registered a number of celebrity domain names in order to profit from them.

The complaint indicated that Hammerton had also registered such domain names as fleetwoodmac.com, jethrotull.com and others.

Led by Hendrix’s father and half-sister, Experience Hendrix owns the rights to the name Jimi Hendrix.

A WIPO arbiter ruled that Hammerton--who, according to Experience Hendrix’s WIPO complaint, had at one point tried to sell the domain name for $1 million--had registered the name in “bad faith,” and that ownership of the name be transferred to Experience Hendrix.

According to Experience Hendrix’s official website, a four-disc box set of “rare and largely never-before-heard Hendrix music” is scheduled for release on Sept. 12. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, is scheduled to launch a Hendrix exhibit on that same date, according to the site.

Meanwhile, in a similar domain-name ruling handed down last month, a WIPO arbiter transferred ownership of emiwarnermusic.com, emiwarner.org, emiwarner.net, warneremi.net and warneremi.org from a New Jersey company named CPIC to Time Warner and EMI, both of which earlier this year announced their plans to merge. According to a WIPO document, CPIC’s lawyer had initially told the two companies that CPIC would transfer ownership of the name in return for $1 million.

The WIPO is a specialized agency of the United Nations that rules on intellectual property matters recognized by the member States of the UN. The WIPO’s Internet domain-name mediation program was introduced last year in an effort to end “cybersquatting” by individuals who register high-profile domain names in hopes of profiting from them.