07-02-2007, 09:07 AM
Quote:Domainer litigation is heating up, and this lawsuit may be the most ambitious anti-domainer lawsuit to date. First, it is a putative class action lawsuit. Second, in addition to naming four leading domainer firms, the plaintiffs provocatively go after Google for providing ads to domainer sites. I believe this is the first lawsuit against Google for its domainer relationships.
The complaint itself is a 121 page, 638 paragraph (with one paragraph enumerating 47 defined terms), 4.3MB behemoth alleging trademark infringement and dilution, ACPA violations, RICO and other claims.
Much of the lawsuit focuses on Google's "AdSense for Domains" program specifically catering to domainers and domain name parkers...
full article: http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/200...ued_in.htm
copy of lawsuit: http://claranet.scu.edu/tempfiles/tmp326...plaint.pdf