Over the years we have chatted about over reaching trademark holders and trademark group pushing for great protections and while we have been on the side of the domain holder, in all fairness we do have to admit that for a large trademark holder they have a nightmare on their hands when it comes to domain names.
Take Google.
In June 2013 we found 977 .com/.net domain names were registered that contained the word “Google” of these only 8 seemed to be registered by Google which uses domain registrar/brand protection company MarkMonitor.com to handle their domain registrations.
So that’s 969 domain names in one month just in the .com and .net extensions. Obviously there are 20 other TLD and hundreds of country codes as well.
Of course Google has a lot of brands and a lot of trademarks and this only covers the one brand of Google.
If Google wanted to go after all these domain names in a UDRP it would cost them $1,500 a pop not including attorney fees, which would total some $1.5 Million dollars and that is just for June’s names only for .com and for .net.
That’s a lot of wasted money.
You could see how a company like Google would get pretty tired of paying millions of dollars in filing fees alone each month to go after people and domains they had no right to register in the first place.
Also consider registrants are from all over the world and a ton of the registrations are under privacy.
Over 100 domain names were just for the new Google Glass product:
googleglass-review.com
googleglassactivewear.com
googleglassanti-theft.com
googleglassappdesign.com
googleglassappreview.com
googleglassapps1.com
googleglassapps4u.com
googleglassappsearch.com
googleglassappsnyc.com
googleglassargentina.com
googleglassbbs.com
googleglassbeta.com
googleglassbling.com
googleglassbluetooth.com
googleglassbrasil.net
googleglasscamera.com
googleglasscanada.com
googleglasscare.com
googleglasschargershop.com
googleglassco.com
googleglasscommunity.com
googleglassconnect.com
googleglassconsulting.com
googleglasscraze.com
googleglassdev.net
googleglassdiary.com
googleglassdirections.com
googleglassdomains.com
googleglassdr.com
googleglassebay.com
googleglasses4u.com
googleglassesapps4u.com
googleglassesexplorer.com
googleglasseshop.com
googleglassesnow.com
googleglassesnowonsale.com
googleglassesonsalenow.com
googleglassespov.com
googleglassesrepair.net
googleglassessex.com
googleglassessupplier.com
googleglassevolution.com
googleglassextreme.com
googleglassfails.com
googleglassfinancing.com
googleglassforsale.net
googleglassfunding.com
googleglassfuture.com
googleglassgal.com
googleglassgalore.net
googleglassgem.com
googleglassgig.com
googleglassgigs.com
googleglassgiveaway.com
googleglassglobal.com
googleglassgod.com
googleglassguild.com
googleglasshackers.com
googleglasshealthcare.com
googleglasshk.com
googleglassinfo.net
googleglassinstructions.com
googleglassinterface.com
googleglassjammer.com
googleglasslaunch.com
googleglasslawsuit.com
googleglasslawsuits.com
googleglasslens.net
googleglasslover.com
googleglasslovers.com
googleglasslovers.net
googleglassman.com
googleglassmasters.com
googleglassmedical.com
googleglassmeet.com
googleglassmeetup.com
googleglassmixer.com
googleglassmontreal.com
googleglassnation.com
googleglassneworleans.com
googleglassnola.com
googleglassnosepad.com
googleglassnowonsale.com
googleglassnz.com
googleglassonsalenow.com
googleglassoutdoors.com
googleglassoutlet.net
googleglasspeople.com
googleglassplayservices.com
googleglasspornapp.com
googleglassprescription.net
googleglassprice.net
googleglassretailers.com
googleglassreviewsite.com
googleglassrevolution.net
googleglassscam.com
googleglasssconnect.com
googleglassseo.com
googleglasssf.com
googleglassshopper.com
googleglassshoppers.com
googleglasssignup.com
googleglassski.com
googleglassskin.com
googleglasssnowboard.com
googleglassspy.com
googleglassstickers.com
googleglassstudy.com
googleglassstuff.com
googleglasssummit.com
googleglasssurgery.com
googleglasssurvey.com
googleglassteam.com
googleglasstechnology.com
googleglasstoha.com
googleglasstoronto.com
googleglasstourguide.com
googleglasstraining.com
googleglasstranslator.com
googleglasstrends.com
googleglassupdates.net
googleglassupgrades.com
googleglassvancouver.com
googleglassvideos.net
googleglasswareapps.com
googleglasswarez.com
googleglasswork.com
googleglassworldwide.com
Here is a full list of the registered .com/.net domain names that were june (pdf)
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