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Google Wins 'Typosquatting' Dispute

Posted by timothy on from the wrongful-clacking dept.

JeiFuRi writes "The National Arbitration Forum has awarded Google the rights to several web addresses such as googkle.com, ghoogle.com, and gooigle.com, alleging that Sergey Gridasov of St. Petersburg, Russia, had engaged in 'typosquatting.' Business Week comments that Gridasov relied on typographical errors to exploit the online search engine's popularity so computer viruses and other malicious software could be unleashed on unsuspecting visitors."

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  1. Nothing new by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even Slashdot is affected...

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  2. Re:glooge.com by kevcol · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could have Goohgled it first.

  3. Re:Property rights in the US of A? by Zordak · · Score: 3, Informative
    While I would hate to be seen as standing up for the Kelo decision, it does not allow the government to take your land without "reparations." Governments are not supposed to be able to take your land at all , with or without "reparations," except for some very narrow "Public Uses" (roads, bridges, schools). What the Kelo decision did was cut the last tiny, little thread that the "Public Use" clause was hanging by and say that the city could take your land whenever they want it and give it to whomever they please. They still have to give you "just compensation" (althouth that basically translates into "whatever the city decides your property is worth before they take it").

    I hate the Kelo decision as much as anybody (in fact, I haven't run into a single person who likes it), but lets not make it into a beast it's not.

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  4. Re:Why the *national* arbitration forum? by teethdood · · Score: 2, Informative

    The US owns the .com .net and .org TLDs, hence the National Arbitration Forum of the USA has jurisdiction. The Russian NAF would have jurisdiction over .ru

  5. Cell phone browsers by babybird · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pick up a telephone and look at the numbers the letters G, O, L, and E are on. People have browsers on their cell phones now, if you accidentally type the word google in numeric entry mode, you get 466453. I guess they're depending on the phone browser to fill in the www. and .com parts.

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  6. Re:About time by dancallaghan · · Score: 2, Informative

    where every website indexed is 1) sumbitted by multiple people as usefull, and 2) checked by someone at google to be sure it is not spam, and 3) there is a web form to indicate a website does not belong

    Have you heard of The Open Directory Project?

  7. Re:Kick me. by novakreo · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's retarded. There's nothing wrong with my HTML, so if some MOD somewhere could fix that I would appreceiate it.

    Moderators can't edit posts, they can only mod them up or down as needed. I'm sure Slashdot editors/admins can, but this is the only time I've heard of them intervening, and that was to delete, not edit.

    The problem here is that Slash, the code behind Slashdot and several other sites, uses very old HTML, before such things as title attributes were around. You could try reporting a bug, if there isn't one already, but realistically all you can do is stick to very basic HTML here and make sure you preview before submitting.

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