Following a two-month fight with Walmart, cartoonist Jeph Jacques has shut down his parody site walmart.horse and turned over the domain name to the retail giant.

“I didn’t feel like fighting them any more,” Jacques, creator of the webcomic Questionable Content, told The Guardian.

Launched in February, the website consisted solely of the above image, created from two public-domain photos superimposed on one another. The idea came to the cartoonist after he saw a list of new Top Level Domains, domain-name extensions that reflect specific interest. "The idea behind the site started out as a conversation with a friend of mine," he explained in March. "We were extremely amused by the new .horse TLD and decided to register a bunch of ridiculous domain names with it."

However, Walmart's attorneys weren't laughing. In mid-March they sent Jacques a cease-and-desist letter, claiming walmart.horse "constitutes trademark infringement and dilution of Walmart’’s trademark rights and unfair competition.” He responded that the site is “an obvious parody” protected by fair use, and that seemed to be that -- at least until April, when Walmart filed a cybersquatting complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization.

According to an attorney consulted by The Guardian, it's unclear how this case would've played out. However, Jacques wasn't worth the hassle to find out As of Monday, walmart.horse is owned by Walmart.

(via Gawker)