Google might not approve his account for adsense. That would be really funny if they did and he added the refferal banner, he'd make loads!
Correct, and Google owns, "googleadsense.com", so again, what is the point of suing over "adsense.whatever"?
You can refer people all day and night to google adsense. And you will not get 100 bucks for each. Only if they earn 100 bucks in (did they just change the time limit?) 90 days.
Google wants everything to be inside "Google.com" so that noone tries to pose as Google with a domain like googleadsense.com googleearth.com etc. All they trying to tell ppl is that a real Google page is within the Google.Com domain anything part from that is not Google. I have seen fake login pages for paypal, yahoo etc. making fake login pages like yahoosbcglobal.com, yahoomembers.com etc. Yahoo has now managed to ban and get most of the domains with Yahoo in the domain under their belt now. Google definetely taking such precautions here.
I remember when I first joined up the Adsense. I actually typed in adsense.com about two times and noticed that it was not google. I just guess other people must do this aswell.
Last week, I had a good conversation with Alexis Garrett, owner of Adsense Consulting (and Adsense.com). She tells me that the duplicity of names has been nothing but a headache for her marketing/consulting business which primarily serves local markets in Lane County, Oregon. I was interested because our her market within the construction industry matches our regional publications/websites markets. She tells me most of the calls she received were from 'get rich quick' type people wishing to partner with her or purchase her domain for a pittance. Google declined her an adsense account (probably not unreasonably since her site is primarily of a promotional nature for her business. She said she tried to sell the domain to Google, but after repeated efforts, received a "no" by email. (I reached a spokesperson in Google's public relations department, who told me that Google receives many offers to purchase domains, and declines it.) She says she has a reasonable price for her domain, sold to an anonymous purchaser through a broker, with a transition arrangement allowing her to maintain the domain until she can match up the change with her local marketing (yellow pages ads, etc.) She will then use the name adsense1.com. I've posted this on my websites, but am not allowed live links yet (a good policy, I agree). You can look it up by going to Oregon Construction News (site is still in the sandbox) or Ottawa Construction News.
Actually, the owner of adsense.com told me she got NO business benefit from the Adsense association -- just lots of headaches. At one point when a national magazine reported on people making money from their blogs with adsense, she received upwards of 3,500 emails a day -- none related to her business or markets. Remember, she is operating a live, real business, with local identity and customers and so "adsense" has a different meaning to her potential customers in Oregon than all the people attracted by the Google phenomena. And she certainly had the name long before Google started using it. Alexis declined to say how much she is being paid for the domain; it isn't a tiny amount, but she says it is nothing compared to the aggravation the whole thing caused her.
I guess Adsense.com would be a good domain name to use for something like an affiliate programs directory. People who are looking for affiliate programs to join are more likely to get interested when they reach the Adsense.com site by mistake.
If it's been that much of a problem continuing to use Adsense as your business name then using adsense1.com as your domain and keeping Adsense as your main business name isn't the best move in my opinion. It's sounds to me that she chose to see the glass as half empty. There are many ways she could have used the domain to her benefit. I'm sure we will see that from the new owner. She probably could have been approved for Adsense with another site and then simply placed it on that site as well. If not I'm sure it would have been possible to negotiate an advertising co-op deal with Google with a domain like that.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the dig that Adsense.com got in for Google- right there on the page: Looks like some sour grapes there, for whatever reason. Mad at Google for not buying it from them? Hmmmm?
I called the owner of adsense.com about a year ago and she was not very happy to talk with me. I was very polite and asked if she'd be willing to sell, and she rudely told me "no". But I can understand if she's been dealing with a constant string of emails and phone calls...