Google loses battle for goggle.com - GoFuckYourself.com

drmadcat · 10-12-2011, 06:47 AM

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Google has lost its cybersquatting fight with typo-snaffle site goggle.com, enabling its owner to carry on enticing clumsy typists into signing up for pricey text messaging services.

The company's complaint against the domain name's current registrant, Barbados-based David Csumrik, was dismissed on procedural grounds yesterday by a three-person National Arbitration Forum panel in the US.

Right now, Goggle.com's website asks visitors a short series of questions before attempting to persuade them to sign up for a £3-per-text quiz competition, offering the latest Apple products as prizes.

This isn't the search engine you were looking for
This is the preferred money-making scheme today for typo-targeting domains of high-traffic websites. Twitter filed a similar complaint over the domain name twiter.com in June.

Google attempted to slay goggle.com by wielding the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, which was designed to give trademark owners a way to take domains from cybersquatters without resorting to expensive litigation.

While goggle.com appears primarily to take advantage of butterfingered web searchers, the NAF panel declined to consider the UDRP's standard tests of "confusing similarity" or "bad faith registration".

Csumrik, in his response to Google's complaint, showed paperwork claiming that Google and the disputed domain's previous owner, Knowledge Associates, had legally agreed to "co-exist".

Those rights transferred to him when he bought the domain, he claimed.

This was enough to convince the NAF panel that the dispute was "outside the scope" of the narrowly focused UDRP, which does not deal with contractual or business disputes.

"Does the Co-existence Agreement apply to the disputed domain names? Does Respondent stand in the shoes of the original registrant? Does the consent of Complainant extend in time to the current actions of Respondent and in person to the Respondent? Has the Respondent complied with the obligations of the original registrant?" the panel asked. "These are factual and legal issues that go far beyond the scope of the Policy."

12clicks · 10-12-2011, 06:52 AM

haha. that dude used to run our searchbox on his page.
sent him some mighty checks

devilspost · 10-12-2011, 06:54 AM

They should just buy it from him.

iSpyCams · 10-12-2011, 06:58 AM

They got me one day before I had my coffee in the morning with a Youtube typo domain. Told me I won an ipad and needed my phone #. So like an idiot I gave it to them.

I knew it was a mistake immediately when the popup window said "an error has occurred, please re-enter your phone #"

I immediately got swamped with telemarketing calls, apparently I had "opted in".

retards · 10-12-2011, 07:00 AM

Whoa that is awesome

ertiope · 10-12-2011, 07:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by devilspost

They should just buy it from him.

and they might.. but the price just went from $100k to $5M..

devilspost · 10-12-2011, 07:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ertiope

and they might.. but the price just went from $100k to $5M..

5M a drop in the bucket

Scott McD · 10-12-2011, 07:07 AM

They want it, they can pay for it!

Zorgman · 10-12-2011, 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pompousjohn

They got me one day before I had my coffee in the morning with a Youtube typo domain. Told me I won an ipad and needed my phone #. So like an idiot I gave it to them.

I knew it was a mistake immediately when the popup window said "an error has occurred, please re-enter your phone #"

I immediately got swamped with telemarketing calls, apparently I had "opted in".

Makes me think. hmmmm.. who don't I like..

Pipecrew · 10-12-2011, 07:54 AM

anyone know the affiliate program for those leads?

96ukssob · 10-12-2011, 07:56 AM

DVTimes · 10-12-2011, 08:20 AM

site does not load for me:

http://www.goggle.com/

HardlinkSells · 10-12-2011, 09:44 AM

Loads fine for me

10-12-2011, 06:47 AM	#1
drmadcat Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: in the back room wanking Posts: 2,024	Google loses battle for goggle.com link Google has lost its cybersquatting fight with typo-snaffle site goggle.com, enabling its owner to carry on enticing clumsy typists into signing up for pricey text messaging services. The company's complaint against the domain name's current registrant, Barbados-based David Csumrik, was dismissed on procedural grounds yesterday by a three-person National Arbitration Forum panel in the US. Right now, Goggle.com's website asks visitors a short series of questions before attempting to persuade them to sign up for a £3-per-text quiz competition, offering the latest Apple products as prizes. This isn't the search engine you were looking for This is the preferred money-making scheme today for typo-targeting domains of high-traffic websites. Twitter filed a similar complaint over the domain name twiter.com in June. Google attempted to slay goggle.com by wielding the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, which was designed to give trademark owners a way to take domains from cybersquatters without resorting to expensive litigation. While goggle.com appears primarily to take advantage of butterfingered web searchers, the NAF panel declined to consider the UDRP's standard tests of "confusing similarity" or "bad faith registration". Csumrik, in his response to Google's complaint, showed paperwork claiming that Google and the disputed domain's previous owner, Knowledge Associates, had legally agreed to "co-exist". Those rights transferred to him when he bought the domain, he claimed. This was enough to convince the NAF panel that the dispute was "outside the scope" of the narrowly focused UDRP, which does not deal with contractual or business disputes. "Does the Co-existence Agreement apply to the disputed domain names? Does Respondent stand in the shoes of the original registrant? Does the consent of Complainant extend in time to the current actions of Respondent and in person to the Respondent? Has the Respondent complied with the obligations of the original registrant?" the panel asked. "These are factual and legal issues that go far beyond the scope of the Policy." __________________ asiamoviepass.com

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