www.GoogleMiniGames.com (Legal Issues RUMOR)?

ok www.oogle.com They Should Get Sued!

 

First of all I bet your Canadian law probably allows people to sell items which could be used for legal purposes. I'm sure I can go to Canada and buy a hammer. It's my responsibility not to beat someones head in with that hammer. You can legally use a domain name with someones trademark for certain purposes. There's also ways you can violate that trademark.

Secondly your argument would have no sway in a US court, any lawsuit filed by Google will be at least in a US court. Since .com extensions are administered in the US, a court here is perfectly capable in seizing your domain.

 

.....That will take time lol....my domain would expire before they take action

 

Listen, if your site gets popular enough to get googles' attention, then you'll be already rich enough to walk away from it.

Keep the domain or sell it to me.

 

This is false! When you purchase the hammer you are purchasing it too hammer nails. Not beat someone and that intent to beat someone is never there. What you're saying when applying it to the domain name it would state, buy the domain but don't do anything with it, no development. And the domain name company would be obligated to tell you this information before purchase unless stated in a clause in a pre sign electronic or physical document.

Where as with the domain name the selling company knew of the possible controversy and still with awareness of possible lawsuits sold the domain name anyways.

You would never be sued!

 

would you actually be intrested??

 

Hey, got you a new tag line too...

Google-Mini-Games

more than just gaming

it's stealing!


-sfcom

 

why do you call it stealing??

 

Because you are not Google. You aren't even close to Google. You need to look in the mirror and say "I am not Google" 2000x

Unless your first, middle, or last name is Google, you would never win a court decision on this.

-sfcom

 

http://www.googleguide.com/
http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html
http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/

your not the only one

 

How would you or anyone else know what I intend to do with my new hammer. It may have been designed for hammering nails, but it will work just as good on someones head as it would on a nail. According to your argument I wouldn't even have to worry about any legal consequences because it's the merchants fault for selling me the hammer.

It would seem you have misunderstood something about the subject of fair use. I would suggest you research this a little before making such ridiculous statements.

A registrar isn't obligated to tell you anything about whether the domain you purchase contains a trademark or not. It's your responsibility to do your own damn research. You can't pass the blame on to someone else. Registrars cannot be expected to know every trademark in existence and then hand review every domain being registered to ensure it doesn't contain a trademark. It would effectively double the price of registering a domain and extend the process for a much longer period of time. And they still can't stop you from registering the domain because there are fair use exemptions for trademarks.

You must be incredibly young or incredibly stupid to make such a statement. People are free to sue you for whatever reason they want. The validity of any lawsuit is up to the court to decide.

Ignorance of the law has not been and never will be an excuse for breaking it.

 

ACPA

ANTI-CYBERSQUATTING CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT
What is the ACPA?
The Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) is a US federal law enacted in 1999 to protect the owners of trademarks from abuse by domain name cybersquatters. ACPA is codified at 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d). The legal remedies available against those who violate the act appear at 15 U.S.C. § 1117. A trademark owner can request a cancellation or transfer of the domain name as well as money to cover damages caused by the domain holder.

In particular, ACPA outlaws the practice of registering one or more domain names that resemble distinctive trademarks with the intent to extract a handsome price from the trademark owner.

Somewhat more broadly, the Act is meant to reduce consumers' confusion about the source and sponsorship of Internet web pages. Its goal is to provide customers with a measure of reliability, so they know that when they visit www.reebok.com, they will be able to find actual Reebok products, not something entirely different. It also aims to protect trademark owners from the loss of customer goodwill that could be caused by others' use of their trademarks to market shoddy or disreputable goods or services.

Before a trademark owner can take a domain name under the ACPA, the law requires the tradmark owner to prove the name is being used in commerce in bad faith. If you are using a domain name for legitimate, non-commercial purposes, that may be a defense.

Jared Kramer
Harvard Law School '04

Im not going to debate it But Thats what i found on the subject.
Its still my opinion it depends on the use of the website but im not a lawyer..
If you emailed google and they didnt care save the letter.. or can you please post the letter here?

Its an interesting subject and everyone has their own opinion.. Im interested to see what google said about it

I think a representitive of google or a lawyer would be better to tell you then myself or anyone else on this forum.

 

Either or I still feel it should be the registers job to ensure these strict laws are followed. The hammer analogy was far fetched and still doesn't make sense no matter how hard you try to explain it! A hammer isn't anything like a domain name. The register is selling you this domain name and they know full well you could possibly be sued, somewhere they have to take some responsibility and if they don't maybe they shouldn't be selling domain names in the first place!

Either way you're right I really have no clue if you would be in trouble but I don't think you have much worries as long as you're not a search engine lol

 

wow many ppl use google on their domain

 

there's a site called paypalsucks dot com

 

Why would you launch a site targetted at stealing traffic?

 

My recommendation for you is that you lock your doors tonight; Google might send their assassins to settle the dispute outside court.

 

How long does it take to get to canada if I brought my own hammer which weighs approximetely 5 lbs and ran from Florida?



Lol

 

Apparantly if you travelled at 6 mph that would take around 250hours

 

You mean the registrar should screen domain names registrations for potential
trademark infringement? I don't know if you don't mind the (in)convenience of
having your registrations screened for such, and someone might acquire those
domain names by then with another registrar merely because yours was taking
their sweet time.

It might interest you to know at least one party sued the registrar for letting a
user register a domain name bearing their trademark:

http://davezan.com/sizevsnsi.txt

That party lost.

BTW, googleminigames, I posted a thread of a YouTube video of an attorney
with real-word experience in these matters you might be interested in:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=560834

I invite you and the others to watch and learn from that lest more bull kaka is
spread around here. There's enough misinformation online as it is, there's no
need to add to it.