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That's pretty stupid. Is Google seriously claiming rights on any possible variation of the word "google", including misspellings that form other words, like gog
by slowpoke 15y ago
That's pretty stupid. Is Google seriously claiming rights on any possible variation of the word "google", including misspellings that form other words, like goggles?
- Hrundi 15y agoA couple of friends once registered a domain called Googirl, back in 2003/4. It was meant to provide a search engine for... well... girl pictures. They had it sleeping for a year until they went full throttle and released the site. It became very profitable, and then one day, Google dropped their hammer on them. I can only imagine this being just one of many stories about this. Microsoft did the same with MikeRoweSoft.com (fascinating story if you care to take a look)
- Hrundi 15y agoWhat do you know... the domain is alive and kicking (although it wasn't the plain dot com I was talking about, it had a country code at the end. Both are alive) Maybe Google relaxed their stance? Still, I wouldn't bother having the word Google in a domain, just in case.