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A 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
by Hrundi 15y ago
A 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.