Well i was searching around for domains to buy and I found a great domain name with google in it "googlexxxxxx.com" I was wondering if there any legal issues if I bought it? And no, those x's aren't the real domain.
Google is not an official word before their search engine became popular. Google does own the Trademark to the name so if you want it, make sure it does not violent that. See http://www.google.com/permissions/guidelines.html
Dont mean to be rude, but thats pretty bad legal information lol. It is trademarked, thus you have to be careful. If your trying to make money by using their name, expect trouble. You would probably be safe if it was just some sort of help site that gave information about google. But if you register it and are promoting non google products using the google name, they will surely get ya in trouble! I could be wrong, I am no lawyer, but this seems common sense to me, just play it safe.
Yes, you are asking for legal trouble. They own the right to use "google" and adding words to the domain doesn't get around that. It is such an established broad mark that almost any use is going to be infringement - and do you really want to spend tens of thousands of dollars in an infringement case?
No, i have registered googleadsensecliks.com and have applied for adsense, they responded saying they will not accept sites with google in domain name. But can run the site without any problems. Summary is that you can use the domain, but google will reject adsense applications. For that sake i just abandoned the site googleadsensecliks.com adding some content other than what i wanted to.
last month i bided for googleBooks.com (which is a great typein with about 2M alexa as google has books.google) ....im not sure abt these trademark issues, so just bidded at $10 but the auction passed $100
Again people what makes you think placing letters or words before or after a trademark name would nullify such a trademark name?
It's trademark infringement, period. Whether or not google chooses to sue you or take the name is another issue - they certainly could if they wanted too.
I have seen most of the Google's name variations and Google typos eventually redirecting to Google.com so they have the power and legal right