Google Recovers Typosquatted .ie Domains
Google recovered a number of .ie domains that were typosquats of Google. The domains (googol.ie, gogle.ie, googl.ie and googel.ie) were part of a terminated IE Dispute Resolution Proceeding against Gabor Varga and Joszef Petho of eubrowser.com. The domains were transferred in the last month. A number of other domains that, potentially, infringe on the trademarks of others have been registered by Eubrowser.com in the last few years. A number of other blogs such as Michele’s, Ambrand and Brian Greene also covered this pattern of questionable domain registration.
Adidas.ie was recovered after Adidas took an IEDRP against Eubrowser.com. The WIPO decision DIE2006-004 makes interesting reading as Adidas effectively demonstrated the bad faith nature of the registration. It also mentioned a letter from IEDR “indicating its belief that the Registrants have been manipulating the criteria for .ie domain registrations is further evidence of bad faith.”
Eubrowser.com’s registration of generic .ie domains is not the problem. The problem arose when it infringed on the intellectual property of others. But IEDR should really have been paying attention to these questionable registrations. Surely when someone tries to register the domain name irishindependent.ie and they are not representing one of the best selling newspapers in Ireland (The Irish Independent), some questions should be asked about the veracity of the registration and the quality of those doing the checking. It is clear that the rules were gamed.
The domains were shifted to the nameservers of Markmonitor.com and are now registered to Google.
Tags: Irishblogs , IEDR , Domains , .ie , Internet Statistics , Comreg , domainnames
Written by John McCormac on June 9th, 2007 with
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