Complaint filed against domain that sends traffic to survey and adult sites.
A complaint has been filed with National Arbitration Forum over the high traffic domain name oogle.com.
National Arbitration Forum does not disclose the name of complainants until a case is decided, but you can bet good money that Google filed the dispute.
A poster on domain forum DNForum in April claimed that the site received 450,000+ unique visitors a month, undoubtedly from people who forget to type the ‘g’ in front of Google. The person was trying to sell the domain for $300,000 or lease it for $5,000 per month.
If you type in the domain name, odds are it will forward to a “survey” site claiming that you can complete a survey and get an Apple product. The logo font on the page doesn’t mimic Google, but notice the colors of the present next to the title.
According to this YouTube video, the domain has forwarded to the survey site since at least last year. However, the post on DNForum suggests it might forward to adult content. Indeed, Screenshots.com shows a NSFW landing page for Ashley Madison on March 25, 2012. So the owner of the domain is splitting the traffic.
The domain is registered to Florida web hosting company Blue Arctic LLC.
Gnanes says
This was expected long time ago when the owner forwarded the domain to adult site. It’s like the owner was asking Google to go after him.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Rob 450,000. Sorry.
James says
This is interesting. But I wonder if the complaint could have been filed by the apparently parasitic DoctorOogle.com (who has its own parasite droogle.com)?
Rob says
“…site received 450,00+ unique visitors…”
is that meant to be 450,000+ or 45,000+ ? big difference there.
Domainer Extraordinaire says
Now only short term lease available. 🙂
Josh says
Yikes, that’s gonna leave a mark.
jin says
The owner has a Letter from the attorney when google attempted to get the domain back in those days.
The letter said, if he does not use search engine or so, he will be fine the domain.
So lets see what happens.
Andrew Allemann says
@ jin – I think it was a different owner?
Pardeep says
Nice domain , google should buy this domain