Domainers offten get in to domain disputes for Cybersquatting. This mean registration of a well-known brand or company name as an Internet domain name in the hope of selling it at a later date or making money by delivering natural traffic to the domain that has nothing but ads. There were so many cases of them before.  groovle.com, msn.in, cnn.es are  Just to name a few. The latest disptue has been repoted today by techcrunch which is related to the domain name googlebuzz.com.

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On November 13, 2009, Google, represented by Meredith M. Pavia (presumably, a Google lawyer), filed a complaint that BuzzNews Network was using the googlebuzz.com domain in bad faith. Further, they argued that it was “confusingly similar” to Google’s trademark on the company name. This was an easy one for the forum to rule on since BuzzNews Network never responded to the complaint.

The presiding panelist also cited Google as being one of the most recognized brands in the world, and clearly that part of the name overcame any claim to “buzz” BuzzNews Network might have had. It probably didn’t help that BuzzNews bought the domain from GoDaddy in 2004 and had parked it with links ever since.

On December 23, 2009, the panelist ruled the name had to be turned over to Google.

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