Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Google wins arbitration for "Typosquatter" Site

From washingtonpost.com

Watch Out For 'Typosquatter' Sites

Surely you've had this experience before: You mistype an Internet address in your Web browser, only to end up at a porn site or some random Web page that tries to install software or hijack your browser's settings.

Well, score one for Google. On Friday, the search-engine giant won an arbitration settlement against a Russian man who had registered Web sites that capitalized on numerous misspellings of the company's trademark name. Full news story.