Google has just launched its new entertainment platform Google Play and merged its Android Store, eBookStore and Google Music in it. It is providing various entertainment options like music, movies, games, books in this service.
All the services are running on Play.Google.com domain. Everything is fine with the service but Google is afraid of GooglePlay.com which is owned by someone else. The domain is owned by a Japanese person and Google has filed a complaint against him. The domain GooglePlay.com is not in use and display third-party Japanese ads.
n order for the name to be transferred to Google, the National Arbitration Forum Panel will determine if the disputed domain meets the following three elements required under the ICANN policy:
- the domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark in which the complainant has rights
- the owner has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name and;
- the domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
Google had already registered all the domain names similar to this brand in the last month but the only missing name in the list was Googleplay.com and Google is now trying to owning the name.
