What if I register Google.com?

[tanz.oma]

Okay, I just did a whois search on "google.com".

It says, it expires on 2011-09-13.

Let's say I get lucky, and I register it, will I be sued?

I know this is impractical, but, I'm just curious.

 

[mvl]

Let's look at it from the other side: Do you really think there is a chance that those Google-guys would decide NOT to sue you?

 

[kev]

Google's lawyers would hunt you down and probably kill you :bah:

 

[Spade]

LoLs. Had me cracking up.

No way this would ever happen, but if somehow you managed to get a hold of google.com - I imagine it'd be out of your possession as quickly as you can say - Trademark Infringement.

 

[p0o9i8u7]

Hahahahahhaa! Hahahahahahaha! Haahhaahhahaha! Funny dude! Hahahahhaha!

 

[maxeaus]

Gee, my guess is you would suddenly become a billionaire overnight, girls would be chasing you, you would become instantly popular, and have 100,s of new "insta friends".

You would be driving (one of) your new lamborghinis , and have no regard for minor discrepancies, such as parking fines.

After a cocaine binge lasting one week, and parking your lamborghini in a "no parking zone" (as usual). You would then fall asleep.

When you woke up, you would realise you are late for your $6 an hour job, that you were sitting in your rusted out bomb, illegally parked, with a fat parking officer screaming at you to "move on", issuing you a fine........Back to reality! :]

 

[npcomplete]

The above responses would be true for ANY famous brand. Obviously you are not trying to get google on a drop... but perhaps thinking of other famous brands that may drop.

The strength of the brand means a lot in Intellectual Property law.

 

[bobdigital]

hijacking google for just a few hours would be fun.
instant celebrity by potentially "shutting down" the internet.
I wish I paid more attention in my network hacking class.

 

[JamesDavid]

I am just playing the Devil's Advocate here:

Google is a Dictionary Word.
So if Barnes & Nobles let Books.com drop and you picked it up I DOUBT they could sue you. So what makes Google able to sue you if YOU picked up a dictionary word.

Just to provoke discussion.

 

[Spade]

I started thinking about the process that would occur for the domain name Google.com to drop and fall into your hands.

1. The Domain would obviously expire
2. Googles credit card on auto-renew was expired
3. The guy who manages the domain names was fired, and the emails telling him to renew are bouncing
4. The DNS no longer resolves
5. Millions of people email/call google as gmail accounts (which resolve to mail.google) no longer functions and obviously google itself search is down (as the site doesnt resolve).
6. All of those phone calls are ignored / no emails are recieved
7. Googles Advertisers call, wanting to know why the site is down
8. No one at google answers the phone because a terrorist has forced the building empty
9. Domain Expires and SnapNames grabs it and puts it in auction
10. Its sold at SnapNames for 10 million dollars, to you.
11. Its in your account 14 days later once the wire is confirmed.

 

[npcomplete]

hijacking google for just a few hours would be fun.
instant celebrity by potentially "shutting down" the internet.
I wish I paid more attention in my network hacking class.

That has been done before, possibly on a larger scale since the party involved below hijacked the DNS system through cache poisoning. I think the DOJ.gov link below underestimates the impact in stating "tens of thousands"... but they wanted to press the case on things that were easily provable:

http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/kashpurepr.htm

Those doing something like this (even for a few hours) need to be careful in the shower in their new prison home.

 

[yilduz]

I am just playing the Devil's Advocate here:

Google is a Dictionary Word.
So if Barnes & Nobles let Books.com drop and you picked it up I DOUBT they could sue you. So what makes Google able to sue you if YOU picked up a dictionary word.

Just to provoke discussion.

Googol is a dictionary word, I don't believe google is, though.

 

[allroundguy]

Any character combination can be trademarked to describe goods or services in one or more of the many classes of goods and services.

 

[npcomplete]

Any character combination can be trademarked to describe goods or services in one or more of the many classes of goods and services.

Not true. You cannot register "books" for selling books and make a Standard Character Claim.

If you do a search at USPTO with the following parameters you get nothing:

(books)[FM] AND ("1"[MD] OR "4"[MD]) AND `RN > "0" AND LIVE[LD]

You could get an MD=1 or 4 for Books if you are selling pantyhose I suppose... but no takers so far according to the above search.

If you do the same thing for "pets" you get these two categories - neither of which are related to "pets" as we normally think of animal pets

Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computer software for Engineering Calculations. FIRST USE: 19960714. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19960827

Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 026. G & S: ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, COMPRISING ELECTRIC POWERED APPARATUS FOR SOLDERING AND DESOLDERING ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS AND CIRCUIT BOARDS, ELECTRIC POWERED APPARATUS FOR REMOVING CONFORMAL COATINGS ON CIRCUIT BOARDS, ELECTRIC POWERED APPARATUS FOR STRIPPING INSULATION FROM WIRES, APPARATUS FOR ELECTROPLATING ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLIES, APPARATUS FOR MEASURING DISTANCES BETWEEN SOLDER CONNECTION POINTS ON CIRCUIT BOARDS AND FORMING COMPONENT LEADS, REPAIR KIT FOR PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS COMPRISING REPLACEMENT TRACES, PADS, LANDS, EYELETS AND FUNNELETS. FIRST USE: 19880526. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19880526

 

[Pichichi]

who knows what will it happen from here to 2011... a new search engine that makes google to be unused? microsoft to buy google being integrated in live.com and then nobody remember google?...

 

[BinderGang]

All of Google's assets would have to be transfered over to you and you would be the new owner of the company.

 

[zabijaq]

Let's say I get lucky, and I register it, will I be sued?

You'll be shot dead (power of money is that You always find someone who is willing to harm anyone for certain amount of money) and Your heirs will give domain back to google.

 

[shockie]

roflz.

i think that if you're lucky enough to register it, then you're probably lucky enough not to get sued. happy hunting!

 

[TestCase]

This actually happened to Microsoft!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/06/microsoft_forgets_to_renew_hotmail/
http://www.doublewide.net/

All of Google's assets would have to be transfered over to you and you would be the new owner of the company.

HAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

Stop it, you're killing me!!!!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :loveyou:

 

[npcomplete]

Interesting story about passport.com (the doublewide.net link in previous post). That guy Michael Chaney deserves an award for being the nicest domainer on earth.