{"id":114186,"date":"2009-12-30T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Groovle-com-Wins-Domain-Name-Dispute-with-Google-130888.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-30T05:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T10:37:00","slug":"groovle-com-wins-domain-name-dispute-with-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/114186","title":{"rendered":"Groovle.com Wins Domain-Name Dispute with Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Groovle-com-Wins-Domain-Name-Dispute-with-Google-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/> Google is very protective of its name, logo and all the things that are closely associated with its brand. Having such powerful branding, which is actually about to undergo some major changes, this makes a lot of sense. In some cases, though, it may get a little overzealous and things may not go the way it intended, like the Groovle.com dispute which was very recently settled in favor of Groovle. The dispute was over the domain name which Google claims is very similar to its own and can be misleading. The fact that Groovle.com offers users a way of customizing their search experience, by enabling them to use background image on a page similar to Google&#8217;s homepage, certainly didn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>The National Arbitration Forum (NAF), the organization which handled the dispute, found in favor of the defendant saying that the name is sufficiently different as to not cause confusion between the two. What it means is that Groovle.com gets to keep its domain name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Respondent [Groovle.com] contends that its alterations clearly transform the predominant word of the &#x3c;groovle.com&#x3e; domain name to &ldquo;groove&rdquo; or &ldquo;groovy,&rdquo; not GOOGLE. Respondent contends that these alterations are sufficient to distinguish its &#x3c;groovle.com&#x3e; domain name from Complainant&rsquo;s GOOGLE mark. The Panel a&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Groovle-com-Wins-Domain-Name-Dispute-with-Google-130888.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is very protective of its name, logo and all the things that are closely associated with its brand. Having such powerful branding, which is actually about to undergo some major changes, this makes a lot of sense. In some cases, though, it may get a little overzealous and things may not go the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}