I noticed that Google bought adsense.com (a while ago) because I went to this site a few months ago and the owner.. was talking about.. Google not paying to use their name and such. How much do you think they purchased this domain for?
It's a trademark so the owner might have been obliged to let them have it anyway. As for price, I don't know - maybe $8.99 reg fee!
IT can't be.... I believe the owner had the name way before google did... the owner has his/her site up there for quite a while til now...
Read http://www.jensense.com/archives/2006/07/owners_of_adsen.html, google actually stole their business name..
we know that google is the god in internet. they can stolen and buy anything ... and nobody say anything
I'd been to that Site before when I was new to Adsense ... I used to type www.adsense.com not google.com/adsense Great to see google bought it and redirected it to Adsense page :d
Thanks for the proof. I did remember some semi-angry message on the homepage of adsense.com before Google bought it.. that's why I'm assuming they must have paid A LOT to acquire that domain name..
I also never knew.. I used to go via google.com/adsense Even though it redirects to google.com/adsense... Why do they do that ?
Because all the site information is hosted at their Google address? Adsense.com is just a mirror to the website so you have to type less
I imagine they didn't pay a damn thing. As already stated, they own the AdSense trademark, and so were probably able to dispute it with ICANN.
Did you even read the thread? Adsense.com was a legitimate business long before google adsense came around, which would exempt it from any trademark. Therefore google paid a lot of money for the domain..
No, not necessarily. Again, and whether you think it's right or wrong, more often the side of the trademark owner is taken.
No its not, do you have any proof for your claim? Unless adsense.com was containing anything relevant to the way googles adsense works. Think about what your saying, you could have a company for years and years but another comes along and trademarks your own brand, you then have to give it up? No.
You're correct. Adsense was someone else's trademark.. though I'm sure it's sorted out now with google and their money..
Actually you are wrong. A similar thing happened with gmail, in the uk & germany hence for the rebranding to googlemail. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4354954.stm
If he really used the name before google did, surely he will make lots of money. I'm talking about mils. ^^