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Registering Google’s Domains

Here’s an interesting article regarding people registering Google trademark domains.

Google just registered GoogleMagazines.com, GooglePapers.org, GoogleMicrofilm.com and GoogleLibrary.org. The article tracked down Wilf Percival, founder of Multimedia International, a Sheffield-based content provider to the mobile phone industry. He registered the domain GooglePhone.com in 2002 and is offering it for sale. Percival wouldn’t have a chance surviving an UDRP on this domain, but he seems to think otherwise. The article states:

Percival denies that he is cyber-squatting, insisting that the googlephone domain has been used for business purposes.

Umm, yeah. That’s not how it works. I can’t register some Coke related domain to sell soda online and claim I’m using it for a legitimate business purpose. Regarding the only way you can register a trademarked domain and use it in good faith is to create a gripe site.

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