February 18, 2009 at 12:12Google sued google.by domain
Recently, the Belarusian version of Google is available on the second level domain google.by .
For a long time, the Belarusian version was available at google.com.by because the google.by domain was busy. More precisely, it was bought out by Denis Korablev, the head of activemedia.by. At this time, the Google search interface was spinning on the site, which led to google.com itself, contextual advertising and links from the main page were sold. True, in September 2008 the site was closed .
Yesterday, electroname.com news project and netnews.byGoogle’s representative Dmitry Sholomko commented on the situation and said that back in December, the google.by domain was seized from activemedia.by in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus. He also said: "Preparatory work is underway to launch Google services on this domain, and after a while it will function in the normal mode of the Google site." This information electroname.com also confirmed Alla Zabrovskaya, director of public relations at Google Russia.
By the way, I do not know cases before that when a domain in the .by zone was seized by someone. Even cases of filing such claims are not known. So, probably, the situation with google.by can be considered a good precedent in the BY-net. True, there is one "but." According to Dmitry Sholomko, they went to court with a lawsuit about violation of rights to a trademark and company name, because google.by once copied google.com. Those. the object of the claim was not the domain itself, but the fact of copying the interface.
It is a pity that this process was not adequately covered in the media, as it happens in the West and even in Russia. Everything went very quietly.
Update On Habré there was a user who introduced himself as Denis Korablev - according to him the only legal owner of google.by at the moment. itkingday . He published his statement on the subject under discussion in the comments .
For a long time, the Belarusian version was available at google.com.by because the google.by domain was busy. More precisely, it was bought out by Denis Korablev, the head of activemedia.by. At this time, the Google search interface was spinning on the site, which led to google.com itself, contextual advertising and links from the main page were sold. True, in September 2008 the site was closed .
Yesterday, electroname.com news project and netnews.byGoogle’s representative Dmitry Sholomko commented on the situation and said that back in December, the google.by domain was seized from activemedia.by in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus. He also said: "Preparatory work is underway to launch Google services on this domain, and after a while it will function in the normal mode of the Google site." This information electroname.com also confirmed Alla Zabrovskaya, director of public relations at Google Russia.
By the way, I do not know cases before that when a domain in the .by zone was seized by someone. Even cases of filing such claims are not known. So, probably, the situation with google.by can be considered a good precedent in the BY-net. True, there is one "but." According to Dmitry Sholomko, they went to court with a lawsuit about violation of rights to a trademark and company name, because google.by once copied google.com. Those. the object of the claim was not the domain itself, but the fact of copying the interface.
It is a pity that this process was not adequately covered in the media, as it happens in the West and even in Russia. Everything went very quietly.
Update On Habré there was a user who introduced himself as Denis Korablev - according to him the only legal owner of google.by at the moment. itkingday . He published his statement on the subject under discussion in the comments .