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designstudio · by **designstudio** on Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:19 pm

German courts have ruled that Google doesn’t have the right to the gmail.de domain name. Daniel Giersch holds the “gmail” trademark in Germany, and registered the domain name in April 2004.

Heise quotes Daniel Giersch’s lawyer Sebastian Eble stating, “The Hanseatic Upper Court felt that the law was so clear that it has not even allowed its ruling to be appealed to a higher court.” Giersch operates physical and electronic postal services under the Gmail brand, predating Googles own Gmail.

This case has been ongoing for three years, with other disputes reportedly in China, Poland, Portugal, Monaco, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland while Austrian courts have ruled in Giersch’s favour.

Google will continue to provide their Gmail in Germany where it’s currently called “Googlemail”.

siva · by **siva** on Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:18 pm

thanks for info

Nabs · by **Nabs** on Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:33 pm

Interesting....... but google can't win everything.

freak0 · by **freak0** on Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:42 pm

@nabs..true
hmm at last google gets 0wned..not everyday u hear that lol:P

Spy3D · by **Spy3D** on Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:15 pm

Yea google thinks they can get anything!!!

Its good that google is not getting that domain, and a Thumbs up for that Giersch guy, he is doing a hell of a job in not giving up, i am sure though that google would have offered him some huge amount of $$$$$$ for it

Connor · by **Connor** on Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:28 pm

Google need to think what they're trying to do...Steal all the domains from people who actually need them...Not for some extra domain for their German email service...

teothoyang · by **teothoyang** on Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:48 pm

hhehe.. interesting news

turtleboy · by **turtleboy** on Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:40 am

Wow, what i am most surprised at is the fact that google just can't buy the domain from them since google inc. has a lot of money! Thanks for the interesting news!

rahulr91 · by **rahulr91** on Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:38 am

google is tryin to become kings of net..but one day they will..

hexbase · by **hexbase** on Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:39 pm

There are millions of guys buying domains of movies, books, games before the company owner of the movie, book or game does. So the sell the domain to the company at a really higher price. Example: 1 guy buys shrek.com at 20 bucks. Then comes the owner of the company to buy the domain and, surprise, It has been bought before. So, he contact the guy owner of the domain and buys him the domain.