GOOGLE.ind.in Domain Name for Sale!!!

Hi, I am the owner of Google.ind.in and I am willing to sell it for a reasonable price, payments accepted via PayPal.

You can set your bids here and please only serious buyers only!!

 

I'll also be online tonight to watch the bids

 

above $100

 

Nice monologue you've got here...

 

Trademark infringement from a company known to be very aggressive in taking domain names. Let me guess, you haven't owned the domain for very long?

 

Please don't post if you're not going to bid....

 

not if the company is GOOGLE.IND.IN

 

Google means Google, no matter what TLD you are using

 

You need to read up on trademark law. Google owns the name "google" not just google.com. You can't use "google" with any extension, or even by adding words to it. It's infringement and because the name is Federally Registered, they can take it at will - which is why they didn't even bother to register it.

 

What if the name is googleindin?

 

They own the right to use "google" - it's their trademark and servicemark. You can't even use similar spellings like "gooogle". Adding words to the domain name doesn't change the fact that you have used the word "google" - which they own. Your attempting to ride the goodwill of their name - and they are known to spend a lot of money protecting it against anyone who infringes upon it.

 

oh well.....what can I do?

 

It will cost google over $1000 dollars to take the name from you if you put up a fight.

I suggest you offer to sell it to them rather than us.

 

google paid over $1mil for google china domain ..

 

Google also spent a lot of money fighthing for the China domain and only bought it after losing. The BIG difference is that the company which owned the China domain registered it in 1999, and google didn't obtain its first trademark registration until two years AFTER that. They lost because the company registered the domain BEFORE.

A $1,000 to google is nothing and approaching a large company to offer them their own domain name is usually not a good idea. It may work against a smaller company who will pay something rather than spend a thousand going after it, but larger companies won't pay based on prinicpal. They may offer your registration fee.

 

Well I contacted them and guess I'm going to have to wait another 3 days for a response.

I'll post back on what happens guys, thanks for the responses!!!

 

This domain is booked by us . Not you . You can check who is details.

 

Nice reply to a post almost 5 years old... Sounds a little like "NA NE NA NE NA NA" to me... I wanted to hear what happened to the original owner's contact with Google after waiting 3 days