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In a recent case before the Arbitration Center for .EU Disputes, Google failed to gain control of the disputed domain name Googles.EU. Google had instructed its Irish subsidiary to file the case, presumably to meet registry rules that require .EU domain owners to be located in the European Union. However, the Google trademark is owned [...]

Frank Schilling describes in a post on his blog how the world's six top domain owners could leverage their power to set up an alternative search engine and advertising network that might eventually unseat Google, the world's top search engine, whose monopoly-like powers are increasingly feared by website owners, online marketers and privacy advocates alike.
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The domain wars continue. Today’s bout: YouTube.com, Google's popular video site, is threatening to launch a lawsuit to gain control over YouTube.cl, a domain that currently hosts a website developed for Chilean audiences, aggregating online videos from YouTube.com.
The issue at stake in this confrontation is whether Andrés Chapero, the man who registered YouTube.cl with knowledge [...]

Google Arbitrage is not a program offered through Google but if you know how to work it right, Google can certainly become your “sponsor” and help you pay a bill or two each month. It’s based off an old world concept of arbitrage that’s being applied to benefit from today’s e-commerce traffic.
Ready for Google Arbitrage [...]

TrafficClub, a domain parking service and aggregator, and DomainSponsor, which was providing the former with two different versions of Google's pay-per-click advertising feed, recently parted ways.
Like most breakups, it wasn't pretty.
A few days ago we received the following email in our inbox:
Dear Domain Owner,
As someone with a valuable domain portfolio, we would like to invite [...]

Google has launched legal action against the Polish Grupa Młodych Artystów i Literatów (GMAil), or Group of Young Artists and Writers, over the domain name gmail.pl which the group had registered on November 1, 2006.
Izabela Krawczyk of GMAiL told news agency Agence France-Presse that Google had turned to Poland's IT and telecommunications tribunal to try [...]

This is a follow-up to last night's post. According to heise.de, google.de was indeed hijacked by a client of the German web hosting company goneo.de. The client had claimed to Goneo that he was the owner of google.de, and Goneo had automatically passed on the claim to the .de registry DeNIC. In accordance with DeNIC [...]