Google wins lawsuit against 17-year-old Indian Kid

May 29th, 2009 by Kunal

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Google has won a lawsuit against a teenage schoolboy about a domain name, googblog.com. Google moved to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to win back the domain name registered on the name of one Harit Shah from Surendranagar. The lawsuit was filed on 26th of March ‘09.

WIPO gave its verdict this week, asking the young schoolboy to handover the domain to Google. The domain name googblog.com had to be handed back to google because it had the word ‘goog’ in it which is Google’s stock sticker registered at NASDAQ.

The young kid looked more than happy to handover the domain to Google with all the publicity from the entire episode. “Google has made me realise my worth by filing a lawsuit against me at WIPO. I bought the domain on September 25, 2008 and posted blogs on computers, multimedia and electronic gadgets on it. I got a letter from a Gurgaon-based law-firm, Ranjan Narula Associates in January this year on behalf of Google, saying that I should handover the domain name to them under the IPR norms”. said the young boy.

Good going boy. One can definitely learn some get-famous-overnight tricks