AdSense domains - are they risky?

[EbookLover]

As most of you know, AdSense.com has been owned by a company other than google well before google released adsense as a branded service. The company that owns the site is actually an advertising or marketing company and uses the site for business. According to whois.sc, AdSense.com has been registered by AdSense Consulting Of Oregon since 2001-02-08, way before Google AdSense came out, I believe (please correct me if I am wrong).

So I guess my question is, does anyone know if Google owns the TM to AdSense? Can Google come after a person with "AdSense" in their domain name? How so?

Have there been any court battles with AdSense.com? I have not heared of any.

Could it be that Google does not acutlly own the TM to AdSense (or vice versa)? Afterall, if you go to the Google AdSense main page, you will see that in the logo, "Adesense" does not have a "TM" or a "SM" next to it and it is nowhere at the footer either. Not even a cirleC.

 

[paulddaw]

this is interesting hehe!

 

[Dave_Z]

Here's one guy who's using an adsense domain: adsense-secrets.com.

Do you think Google will go after him? I doubt it.

 

[FedPrimeRate.com]

G came after me for the domain names:

googled-_dot-_ws
googling-_dot-_us
googlesearch-_dot-_ws

The above names were search portals, but I let them expire when G asked me to transfer the names over to them.

I'm still holding $this_thread's_topic$.TV

:hehe: :o

AmCy

 

[TopNetSearch]

As most of you know, AdSense.com has been owned by a company other than google well before google released adsense as a branded service. The company that owns the site is actually an advertising or marketing company and uses the site for business. According to whois.sc, AdSense.com has been registered by AdSense Consulting Of Oregon since 2001-02-08, way before Google AdSense came out, I believe (please correct me if I am wrong).

So I guess my question is, does anyone know if Google owns the TM to AdSense? Can Google come after a person with "AdSense" in their domain name? How so?

Have there been any court battles with AdSense.com? I have not heared of any.

Could it be that Google does not acutlly own the TM to AdSense (or vice versa)? Afterall, if you go to the Google AdSense main page, you will see that in the logo, "Adesense" does not have a "TM" or a "SM" next to it and it is nowhere at the footer either. Not even a cirleC.

I am sort of wondering the same thing (although from a bit of a different angle).. and in fact, before I read this post, I started my own thread on the topic, so sorry if I may rehash some stuff on my thread, there, that is already being addressed in this thread.