Geneva ? A U.N. panel has awarded Bill Cosby an Internet domain name based on the Fat Albert character he created in the 1960s.

Arbitrators for the World Intellectual Property Organization ordered Monday the transfer of fatalbert.org to Cosby, who had complained it was being used in bad faith to divert visitors to a commercial search engine and a Web site selling sexually explicit products.

Cosby created Fat Albert in the late 1960s as part of his standup comedy routine about his childhood in Philadelphia. The children’s cartoon series “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids” began airing in 1972 and a “Fat Albert” movie was released last year.

Sterling Davenport of Loretto, Tenn., who had registered the domain name, didn’t respond to Cosby’s complaint, arbitrator John Kidd said.

Nonetheless, Kidd said, “the respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name.”