goldgoogle.com domain claimed by google.com

Just to show you how picky big companies can be read this thread

It is because you have a domain with 'google' in it, nothing to do with you being an individual or them liking the domain. You are infringing on their copyright and I'm sorry, but you must have expected something to eventually come from them, they will see it that you are perhaps profiting from using a recognisable name!

We can't give you any legal advise but from the experience of others in similar situations you aren't going to win, who does when taking on a million dollar company!

charge them $10,000 for it!
they have the cash they are just playing with you. Keep your site on the market keep working it until they give you your $10,000 thats my advice.

U r right. U gotta get yourself a lawyer. They r treating u really unjustly. They cannot force you to sell your property or force you to take your site down because the names are similar. You said that you have thousands of dollars invested in this, so get a lawyer and ask him/her what to do. You gotta protect your rights mate.

This is not a legal resource.

And quite frankly I think you'd be foolish to take our advice.

However, in the world of trademarks, running a search engine named GoldGoogle would create confusion in the marketplace, and does infringe on their trademark. If they don't defend their trademark, they lose it.

I question why you would start a search engine called GoldGoogle in the first place, if not to piggyback on their reputation.

I also question why your first post in a forum (you registered to post this one post and haven't been back) is to spread malice and accusations of unfair business practices.

Hi,
My intention was never to spoil googles name...I respect their views...They gave me 7 days to shut down the site..I did it in less than 10 minutes.....as soon as i got their mail.....
well...the time i registered the domain i checked first if there are many domians like this...it was there.....thats why i took it since i liked it.....and most important thing was i was never trying to compete Google.....no one will...I just had a ppc site and In the very very very first paragraph....Not even in bottom...i wrote in first paragraph..." Goldgoogle is seperate company and has not association with google...If you are interested please use Google adwords for u r advertising and also gave a link to googles adwords page....

This is to clealy let google know that i was not looking for any advertisers for myself....by cheating....I was gaining visitors and i wanna clearly metion they also have a better choice than goldgoogle.com to advertise and are encaurage to use googles services....

No one would do it if they are trying to spoil ones name or ruin their business.

Now also...I only ask one thing....I worked so hard......to promote my site....there are domains like googleadwords.com.... even a search ENGINE called fastgoogle.com ....why google targets only me...
I only wrote them politely....and said....Rules applies for everyone....if u can make all guys owing google name for years change to google i will also do it right away....
Ok...they have a point....may be they say i run a search site...But then now its nothing....i even deleted name server....i said..I can send them a written letter saying nothing will be there in goldgoogle.com any more....But still if they only want me to trasfer domain name for pennies and leave all the other hundrends of guys then it doesnt make any sense to me.....I just asked them for a explanation....
Ok i am a looser now...I cant go for a law suit..I am a individual ...penny less now cause i lost so much of money in promoting goldgoogle.com ..I am worried.....Thanks for ur advices now...Again i stress........its my fault....its never my intention to compete a gaint...and even now i feel bad that i write all this cause the world loves google and am also one amoung them........May be i loved it too much i registered goldgoogle.com and linked to them thinking its ok cause i clearly saw them alowing all other domains like this to just stay there...and even run the site.

I respect u guys who share your knowledge ,idea and fun with this incident...Many call me fool ,idiot and tease me.....Thanks anyway

yeah dude. that's bologna.

try and contact them and state your situation with all the things you have told us. i'm sure they would give you feedback on the whole deal.

You can't honestly say that your website was not created with the intent to profit from the word "Google" recognition. What did your site do? I'm sure it had something to do with searching, "googling" as it were. And if it directly used the Google engine, then it's against their terms of use (Look under 'Personal Use Only').

So, needless to say, unless your site had something to do with fishing, or something totally unrelated to finding information (of any kind) on the web, you are at fault. You not only broke their Terms of Use, you infringed on copyright.

she said she had the proper wording on the web site that seperated her site from google. fastgoogle has the same wording so...

She doesn't/didn't.

http://www.paypergold.com/goldgoogle.html

Quote: goldgoogle is a seperate company.

Additionally, it's a search engine. PPC, but still. Similar/same font for the name.

Also, FastGoogle runs the GoogleAPI and is registered with them as a developer. Their text is as follows:

Quote: (Google™ is a trademark of Google Inc. Not affiliated with Google.The Google Web APIs service can be used with our Legal Google Account and License key.)*© 2004 Fastgoogle

And just to be clear, the issue is primarily TRADEMARK, not COPYRIGHT law.

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Explain the difference between TM and C, since I'm the one that made that mistake...

It wasn't just you, Kyle! It's very common.

Copyright applies to images, text, et cetera, but not to specific words. So you couldn't copyright, say, "apples".

However, you could TRADEMARK "apples" if you're not an apple farmer. Trademarks cannot be held for common terms, so you can't trademark "apples" if it's considered to be a common term for the industry. (i.e. Apple Computing -- "apple" isn't a computer term). Trademarks generally refer to branding and also apply to logos (not text graphics, but an actual logo such as the Nike swoosh or AT&Ts globe).

So Google™ and the multi-coloured Google™ logotype are trademarks of Google the company. Technically every time you say "Google", you should say "Google™".

Trademarks apply within an industry only. There are some that become very commonplace so that *any* other company using that name would cause confusion in the marketplace. Theoretically, this means that two different companies, in two different fields can trademark the same name(s) without being in conflict.

Companies like Google™ are in danger of losing their trademark because of the "common" usage that is erupting; when people refer to searching on the web as Googling right now they mean searching with Google™ -- however in the future they may start referring to searching with *any* search engine, which would effectively push the term into being a common term and no longer able to be trademarked.

Quote: Companies like Google™ are in danger of losing their trademark because of the "common" usage that is erupting; when people refer to searching on the web as Googling right now they mean searching with Google™ -- however in the future they may start referring to searching with *any* search engine, which would effectively push the term into being a common term and no longer able to be trademarked.

That's interesting

I see...

Why doesn't anyone like "McDonalding"? ;-D

Well, McDonald's™ has its own issues, specifically derogatory cultural references to McJobs, et al.

I'll give you 11$ for the domain - turn it into a google fan site - we love google - whats the betting they let me keep that site up and running?

:)