All Your Typos Are Belong to Google

Search Engine Watch reports that Google has won an arbitration case giving it the rights to the domain names googkle.com, ghoogle.com, gfoogle.com and gooigle.com. Arbitrator Paul Dorf found that the owner of the typosquatting domains, Sergey Gridasov, was using the URLs to "direct Internet users to Web sites that attempt to download viruses, trojan horses and spyware to the users’ computers. The disputed domain names contain links to various products unrelated to Google." The full decision is here. Some thoughts from Gary Price at SEW:

It will be worth monitoring to see if the Googlepex will begin asserting their legal rights over other registered domains that either resemble Google or include the word Google in the domain name.

Well, that would keep Google's lawyers busy for a very long time. A check at whois.sc finds more than 7,700 registered domains including the phrase "google." That's a lot of work. But the precedent can't be good news for the folks who registered all those domains.

  Posted by RichM July 8, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter

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