Google prevails in google-like web domain dispute
A Reuters newswire report, via Yahoo! News:
The National Arbitration Forum said on 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 registered googkle.com, ghoogle.com, gfoogle.com and gooigle.com between December 2000 and January 2001.
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.
posted by Fergie @ 7/08/2005 09:56:00 AM
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