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Google Doesnâ€™t Renew Google.de, Site Goes Down

Google Doesnâ€™t Renew Google.de, Site Goes Down and a young german guy had registered the domain without knowing it.

Hi Folks - I was at the DLD Conference in munich http://dld-conference.com/ and today, Marissa Mayr VP of google said something about the .de domain in the morning panel session. The page was down from 1-3 am . a young german guy had registered the domain without knowing it. They called the guy and he agreed to give the domain back to google - but Marissa said nothing about the amount of money theyâ€™ve paid him or if they paid him at all. the conference was really great - regards from germany

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1 Steinar (1 comments) Feb 16th, 2007 at 8:02 pm

I doubt Google paid anything at all.
There are rules on these things, see ICANNs website.
2 Darkcrunk (1 comments) Feb 23rd, 2007 at 8:15 pm

Yup.

If there is a Registered Trademark for that name, you can take it off.

But if it was me, I would have asked for a Digital SLR

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