Domain Registration Related News
Australian Search Engine In Dodgy Domain
Registration Scandal
March 2005
Australian Search engine Ansearch finds itself
in hot water over some particularly ill thought
out domain name purchases.
Australian IT report that the fledgling search
engine have registered a long listed of
trademarked, branded domain names by using the .com.au
tld - examples include abcnews.com.au and
microsoftoutlook.com.au
Ansearch chief executive Dean Jones said the
company had registered most of the names during
its launch phase last year in a fit of "youthful
exuberance", hoping to direct extra traffic to the
search engine.
"They didn't go very well, so we are concentrating
on generic names," he said.
"We have had discussions with some (trademark
holders) and if there is ever a dispute, we're
happy to hand it over."
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