Lets say you have a domain name that includes the name "Google". For example. Finditwithgoogle.com where you give tips about they best ways to search with Google. On this site you put adsense. Is this illegal to do? Can google close your account for doing this?
But here is a german man who has adsense in its domainname look here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=38074 I want to register a domain with "chitika" in it. I have send them an email and they mailt me back it is ok (for chitika).
they may have copyrights to the name but there are many sites that use adsense or google in the name. The company I do not believe will have a problem with any of these sites as long as they arent trying to make people believe that they are in fact google or try and bash google or promote the competition of google on their websites. They do have the right to cease your domain name, but its all good for google as long as your not putting their name down or promoting their competition
While it's true that Google is trademarked, Google does tolerate having domains with Google in them. I should know! (MakeEasyMoneyWithGoogle.com)
i have seen some sites having adsense in thier name and running google ads like www.about-adsense.com
Note that Google tracks these domains. I know, because I've gotten HTTP referrals from <i>inside</i> Google and the name of the page in the referral URL implies it was from a list of domains with Google-related trademarks that someone was maintaining. It's easy for Google to get this information, of course, because they're a domain registrar and have access to the raw information in the domain registries. What does this mean? If you're not doing damage to the Google name, probably nothing. But if you are, they may just sick their lawyers on you...