DISQUS

Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2007/11/06/opensocial-domain/

  • Thilo · 2 years ago
    Bad for Google, his luck. I wouldn't sell. I wonder how much his traffic has increased on the domain.
  • James Thomas · 2 years ago
    How is this cyber squatting at *all*? That's a pretty sensationalist headline... I think you should google the term, Kristen. ;) You didn't touch on cyber squatting at all...
  • Jeffro2pt0 · 2 years ago
    So I imagine this is somehow going to end up in court?
  • wonderer · 2 years ago
    Cybersquatting???? You should be ashamed Kristen for even using the term. Not even close.
  • Ron Sheridan · 2 years ago
    ahh NO!

    to quote wonderer: "not even close"
  • KristenNicole · 2 years ago
    Doubtful if this ever ends up in court. Doesn't seem like there are any legal issues related to VastPark and Google's OpenSocial, unless Joy wants to take Google to court for using the name.

    Sorry if the title seems sensationalized. Only wanted to point out that Joy isn't cybersquatting, but could use this situation to help spread the word about his own company.
  • julien · 2 years ago
    if you don't think it's cybersquatting, then don't use the term cybersquatting.
  • Rolf · 2 years ago
    Yup - certainly the wrong headline. Interestingly, Google didn't register opensocial.mobi until the evening before the launch.

    Google doesn't need the domain name... there are enough inbound links to their site URL to make sure it's always going to be number one.
  • Rob Walker · 2 years ago
    Agreed, you knew very well that they weren't cybersquatting, and as that is actually now illegal under certain jurisdictions, it gives even more reason to not throw the term around.

    I think you knew exactly what you were doing when you wrote it, and I notice you haven't changed the headline either.