Here’s an interesting article about 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 says:
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. About 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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