Fun article, but they will get it back with relative ease. Happens all the time. Trademark domain.
Is it still a trademark violation if they use the domain to sell something completely unrelated, e.g. shoes?
Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
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Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#62check this out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26907303
Sounds like a little-used TLD that ICANN has been trying to phase out for decades. Google has individual sites for most of countries that would have initially been under the umbrella of the .su (USSR) TLD, and .su apparently has 2% of the usage of .ru where Google already has a site.
Maybe they'll try to snap it up now that it's attracting a little attention but they probably just don't really care about it...
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#63Google probably threatened to abuse poor guy with legal action.
Similar to what MSFT did to the guy who totally legally registered mikerowesoft.com
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#64I love this line from the article "but when everyone suspected that the server had crashed, as is often the case..."
That must be a pretty big server!
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#65Google has also failed to buy their Soviet domain name: http://google.su/ And they even forgot about http://google.xn--vermgensberatung-pwb/
Can you even buy .su domains anymore? I was under the impression that Russia was just sitting on it.
EDIT: answered my own question. It is apparently actively used.
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#66Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#67I recently sold cryptocomicbook.com and decided to list some additional domains for sale, at the exact time I listed them a handful of ua.(TLDs) got listed for sale including ua.com and whoever listed them must have done it in bulk and given them all the same price ($76). So I bought the ua.com for $76, at that point the seller must have realized what happened and immediately changed the sales price of all the other…
They reversed it because it was an honest mistake and most people like to know that if they make the same mistake it can be undone.
I have to agree - although I'm surprised the registrant actually used common sense here, it was the fair thing to do.
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#68The domain google.gi is still for sale, because it can only be purchased by people who live in Gibraltar. See also, this post: https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/i_bought_netflix_dot_soy
If they really wanted it, presumably they could setup a shell company in Gibraltar using a local agent?
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Took a quick glance and noticed that this article is claiming "duck.com" is owned by Google, even though it redirects to DuckDuckGo. That domain has Namecheap's Whois Guard enabled, so there's no registrant information. However, I'm still inclined to think that it isn't Google's domain since the NS records for "duck.com" point to "nsXX.quack-dns.com"...
Wouldn't it be funny if DDG was actually Google.
Even more funny, what about google financing a competiting browser ? wait ...
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#70check this out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26907303
Sounds like a little-used TLD that ICANN has been trying to phase out for decades. Google has individual sites for most of countries that would have initially been under the umbrella of the .su (USSR) TLD, and .su apparently has 2% of the usage of .ru where Google already has a site. Maybe they'll try to snap it up now that it's attracting a little attention but they probably just don't really care about it...
he's running a website under the name of google. You can play it down, but that's pretty cool.