Google Loses Domain Fight Over Froogles.com

steveshaw writes "According to SiliconValley.com, an ICANN arbitration panel has rejected Google's challenge of a Web site named Froogles.com. This means that the Froogles.com name will remain with the current owner. Also, the current owner is opposing Google's attempt to register Froogle with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, contending the mark would be an infringement of his Froogles.com mark." The story also notes: "Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., has filed 18 domain name disputes at the ICANN panel, challenging names like 'googlesex.com,' 'google.biz' and 'googleme.com.' It has won every challenge but Froogles.com."

Comments

Dr. Seuss Anyone

[robespierremax]

Does this article remind anyone of Dr. Seuss? Google, froogles, moogles, doogles...

Re:Dr. Seuss Anyone

[Seraphim_72]

All the Froogles down in Froogville liked shopping a lot.
But the Google Tradmark Lawyers, who lived just north of Froogville Did Not.
Those lawyers hated Froogles with fury not calm
Oh, yes they hated that name Froogles dot com
No one really knows why they hated them so.
They were a search engine, finding things for you to know.
Some said it was thier servers all linuxy and shiny
Some said it was that the Froogles had said to them "Kiss my heine"
Perhaps it was GMail, all serching and gig-ish
Perhaps it was thier own shopping site name, all slick and so piggish.
But whatever the reason, the heine or gig-ish
They sent off a lawsuit, all secret and quickish.
They would get that name whether the Froogs liked it or not.
Everyone knows that the Law likes big companies a lot
But then an amazing thing came from froogville to thier ear.
A sound of cheering, happiness, and slashdot melting server gears.
The lawyers cried, "It's imposible to rule against us so!"
"We are big, and strong with an outrageous IPO!"
But the Froogles down in Froogville kept on singing thier Joy,
From the Large to the small every girl and boy.
And what happened to those Laywers of great Googlish fame?
Why they were paid handsomely for thier lawuit , so lame.

Apollogies to Dr Suess

Re:GoogleGear

[stinkyfingers]

Maybe they did and purposely ignored it, banking on their size and legal girth to get their way.

</conspiracy>

Booble?

[Honorbound]

I guess the pr0n search engine, Booble, is next! ;-)

(Not safe for work.)

Next targets on Google's radar

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

poodle.com
noodle.com
doodle.com
kugel.com
fluegel.de
kkk.com

(that last one just because it's always good to sue them over anything, and it feels so good too)

Re:Next targets on Google's radar

[Anonymous Coward]

kkk.com

(that last one just because it's always good to sue them over anything, and it feels so good too)

Obviously a Gnome user.

And now...

[BearJ]

And now, for his winning against google, the website will now be slashdotted.

What about Google Girl?!?

[xmas2003]

Ummmm ... one wonders what they are going to do about Google Girl ;-)

Re:GoogleGear

[prockcore]

Oh yea, the owner's name is Uzi Nissan, the owner of Nissan Computer Corp.

Well obviously the owner should be forced to change his name, as he neither sells cars nor automatic weapons.

Re:GoogleGear

[Rude Turnip]

Why? He's not the one that sucks!

In related news

[Archangel Michael]

McDoogle's is being sued by McDonalds, Google, and Doogie Howser MD respectfully.

Someone want to write a [a-z]oogle sciprt?

[stecoop]

Anyone want wirte a whois script to see what other names are registered for [a-z]oogle.com?

and not be evil

[harumscarum]

all your "oogles" are belong to us..

Re:GoogleGear

[slthytove]

Of course, how many of us Gmail-account holding, Google-bar using, overall Google addicts are willing to believe that?

Besides, a Google search on the matter didn't reveal anything sketchy. ;-)

Re:Why did google even bother?

[IronMagnus]

This is not "interesting", this is "not reading properly"

Re:sept 11th

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice of you to put the TV on while having sex. Must be damn boring for your girlfriend otherwise.

sueoogle.com

[FerretFrottage]

How long before this term becomes popular and associated with google?

heh

[Anonymous Coward]

Always amusing to see slashdot readers/posters who will never, ever have sex with a non-inflatable woman pointing out trivial flaws in women they have no chance of scoring with anyway. Like you'd trade in your Huffy for a Ferrari if only the radio knobs were bigger.

Newsflash: Your Dorito crumb-infested beard, Mountain Dew-stained LUG tee shirt (two sizes too small) and semen-encrusted Dockers with the balloon seat all wrapped around a pasty, unwashed poster child for sloth is a far more gruesome sight than a little arm hair on a woman like that.

Re:GoogleGear

[Stephen Samuel]

Oh yea, the owner's name is Uzi Nissan, the owner of Nissan Computer Corp.

Oh, great -- so then he changes his company's name to Uzi Solutions, and finds Israel Military Industries gunning for him!

Re:Look more carefully

[syrinx]

actually I think "9/11", like most dates, occured all day.

And, in another news,

[nusratt]

Merriam-Webster has been enjoined from using floogle, flugel, bugle, canoodle, Gogol, googol, kugel, ogle, Rigel, toodle, woozle, and yodel -- except as character names in a children's book about a band of strip-mining munchkins.