[News']Google hopping mad copy cats sites names

[Hellfighter]

Google beats Web address copycat

Agency rules search company has rights to ghoogle.com and other Web domains similar to its name.
July 8, 2005: 2:32 PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The National Arbitration Forum said Friday that Google Inc. has rights to the Internet domain names googkle.com, ghoogle.com, gfoogle.com and gooigle.com, which are similar to its own google.com domain.

The Web search leader filed a complaint with the NAF on May 11, claiming legal rights to Web addresses bearing a close resemblance to google.com, which it registered in late 1999.

Sergey Gridasov, of St. Petersburg, Russia, registered googkle.com, ghoogle.com, gfoogle.com and gooigle.com between December 2000 and January 2001 through Computer Services Langenbach GmbH, which did business as Joker.com. He did not respond to charges levied against him.

Because Gridasov failed to answer, the arbitrator was entitled to accept all reasonable allegations and inferences in the complaint from Google as true, unless the evidence was clearly contradictory.

The NAF arbitrator, Paul Dorf, found that Gridasov did not have legitimate rights to the Web addresses, and the Web addresses were confusingly similar to Google's trademark rights to its own name.

Further, the arbitrator found that Gridasov was using them in bad faith by presumably profiting from the use of domains.

Gridasov used his domain names to direct Internet users to Web sites that attempt to download viruses, Trojan horses and spyware to the users' computers. The domain names also carried links to various products unrelated to Google, the NAF said.

The NAF hears thousands of domain disputes each year under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, in a dispute process that is an alternative to trademark lawsuits.

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/08/tech...reut/index.htm

will that joke is in for a ride now

[Matt]

wow chief...that quote in ur signature is a few years old haha

[atholon]

lol google takes over the world!

[Hellfighter]

Originally posted by Trilogy
wow chief...that quote in ur signature is a few years old haha

yep i never for get something thats stand out like that one did lol 2002 post you made.

[Jeff]

Originally posted by atholon
lol google takes over the world!

yes sir.

[Lucky]

lol
sucks to be those site owners

[Scott]

I don't think google sould be able to take control over the domain names just because they are similar.. that's a bunch of bull...

[Rampage.]

agreed, thats like me buying novahq.com and getting sued by the admins, which i would never do

[VooDoo-]

theres a few like that... like typos you would type while typing in google..pretty dumb...

but i know google has a few domains with extra o's in em too

[Rampage.]

like this, http://www.goooooooooooooooooooooooo...oooooogle.com/

thats run by google,

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google rip off
http://www.soople.com/

[Scott]

it's not a google rip off.. it's there to let you know what you can do with google.. and make using it easier.

[Rampage.]

I know, I mislabled it

[Stu]

well thats prettey stupid concidering ...
www.novahq.net
www.nova-inside.com
www.novalogic.com
...
ehhhhh. Novalogic doesnt have any control over us

[SilentTrigger]

It has been done so many times, don't remember all those times Msoft was up nocking on peoples foreheads?

I do also think that was the right thing to do as he did act against the law by spreding harmfull programs.

[Hellfighter]

Originally posted by Tecoma2
well thats prettey stupid concidering ...
www.novahq.net
www.nova-inside.com
www.novalogic.com
...
ehhhhh. Novalogic doesnt have any control over us

let not for get www.nova.com ether there