Pop star Robbie Williams has won his battle to evict a "cybersquatter" in England from a website using his name.

The United Nations copyright agency ruled that Howard Taylor, of Southampton, was using his site www.robbiewilliams.info in bad faith.

It decided he does not have the right to use the name and that the website address must pass back into the hands of the millionaire singer.

The website included a link to the site of Liam Gallagher's band Oasis, who famously fell out with Williams following a short spell of them hanging around as friends.

Mr Taylor said he had put the Oasis web address on his site for a joke and said he thought the arguments between Williams and Gallagher were part an orchestrated publicity campaign.

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He defended his use of the site by saying that "anyone who knows about it would see the humour".

He said he wanted to run the site as an unofficial Robbie Williams fan club.

But the UN World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), which protects trademarks and patents, ruled the domain name was virtually identical to other Robbie Williams sites.

It also said Mr Taylor had not demonstrated any rights or legitimate interest in the site and that it had been registered in bad faith.

Scottish comedian Billy Connolly was a winner in the web name fight after he won control of the internet domain name billyconnolly.com from a golden labrador dog and its owner.

He was awarded ownership of the web address after he complained against its registered owner Anthony Stewart to the WIPO who was using it to advertise the mating services of his dog Rougemar Billyconnelly.

Hollywood actress Julia Roberts and pop star Madonna are among celebrities who have won similar cases.

Others such as the singer Sting, however, have been overruled.