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Definitely a bug in Google domains. The real one expires 9/14/2020. https://who.is/whois/google.com/
Yea, but if Google says you own google.com, how 'unreal' is your claim?
Apparently this happened in 1999 with Microsoft's Passport.com as well [1], and again later with hotmail.co.uk [2]. While I understand that snafus like this can happen, I don't understand why the new owner would simply hand back the domain for essentially no compensation (especially in the case of hotmail.co.uk - this appeared to be a clean transfer of an expired domain). If they let the domain expire, it's fair game…
If a company can reasonably show they own a trademark for a name in a region and should be awarded a domain, registrars will give away the domain. There has been plenty of cases where even old domains were taken away.
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If a company can reasonably show they own a trademark for a name in a region and should be awarded a domain, registrars will give away the domain. There has been plenty of cases where even old domains were taken away.
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Nope. The details don't match not because GP has a bad memory but because it was a separate incident. Don't be a dick.
Ah, maybe it was the passport.com incident that was mentioned in another comment. Fair enough!
Apparently this happened in 1999 with Microsoft's Passport.com as well [1], and again later with hotmail.co.uk [2]. While I understand that snafus like this can happen, I don't understand why the new owner would simply hand back the domain for essentially no compensation (especially in the case of hotmail.co.uk - this appeared to be a clean transfer of an expired domain). If they let the domain expire, it's fair game…
If a company can reasonably show they own a trademark for a name in a region and should be awarded a domain, registrars will give away the domain. There has been plenty of cases where even old domains were taken away.
There is also the counterpoint of the case of Nissan Motor Co vs. Nissan Computer Corp [1] where Nissan Motors owns the trademarks but have not been granted nissan.com.
[0] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-02-25-en#4 [1] http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case292.cfm
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Whoa thanks for mention this; I've always been "logged in" to LinkedIn that I never knew you had to be logged in to see their content. That's a shame. Edit: jschmitz28 is a liar; you can access without being logged in just fine.
Definitely a bug in Google domains. The real one expires 9/14/2020. https://who.is/whois/google.com/
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Whoa thanks for mention this; I've always been "logged in" to LinkedIn that I never knew you had to be logged in to see their content. That's a shame. Edit: jschmitz28 is a liar; you can access without being logged in just fine.
Not cool. Perhaps you meant it humorously, but please don't post things like that here.