Home / News

Google Sued for Selling Ads on Parked Domains and Error Pages

Google on Friday was sued for fraud, business code violations, and unjust enrichment, claims arising from the company's alleged sale of low-quality ads, reports Thomas Claburn, of InformationWeek. The class-action lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., by lawyers from San Francisco-based Schubert Jonckheer Kolbe & Kralowec. The plaintiff is attorney Hal K. Levitte, who advertised his legal services though a Google AdWords pay-per-click campaign last year.

Should the lawsuit move forward as a national class action and succeed in claiming that all Google's AdWords advertisers have spent a similar percentage of their ad budgets on low-quality ads, Google could be liable for a significant sum.

Read full story: InformationWeek

Related topics: Domain Names, Law, Web

Get a weekly summary of postings to CircleID:

 Master Feed (more feeds)      Twitter      Mobile
Bookmark / Email This Post

Comments

Ha, that should kill whats left of the domainer market Suresh Ramasubramanian  –  Jul 15, 2008 8:44 PM PDT

If GOOG withdraws adwords / google ads from ppc on parked domains, there are very few large enough ads players left.  Lovely.

To post comments, please login or create an account.

Related Blogs

Related News

Industry Updates – Sponsored Posts

Latest Brandjacking Index Examines How Fraudsters Abuse Financial Brands

MarkMonitor at 2009 Trademark, Anti-Counterfeiting and Grey Market Fraud Mitigation Summit

A Seemingly Overwhelming Number of Important Documents Released by ICANN

.ORG First Open Top-Level Domain to be Signed with DNSSEC

Expanding Internet Access Driving Software Piracy, Study Says

dotMobi Names AutoTrader.mobi as Millionth Site Tested by Acclaimed mobiReady Tool

SPIL GAMES Chooses MarkMonitor for Global Domain Management

Mobile Banking Benchmarks Now Available

Facebook Selects MarkMonitor Antifraud Solutions to Combat Malware

Perspectives from a Nonprofit Domain Name Registry on Navigating the Social Media Frontier

Flawed Economic Analysis of New gTLDs

Benchmarks that Measure Five Critical Dimensions of Success for Mobile Websites

IP Rights in Digital Environment Key Element of Proposed Treaty

MarkMonitor AntiFraud Solutions, Combining Proven Antiphishing and Expert Antimalware Capabilities

Go Daddy Launches Instant Mobilizer from dotMobi

New Study of Mobile Web Trends Demonstrates Strong Growth of Mobile Content Availability

Identify Infringing Domains to Optimize Online Search Marketing Spend

dotMobi Announces Launch of First Two-Letter Mobile Domain by Nevada Commission on Tourism

DomainPeople Opens .Tel General Registration with Prices that are 90% from Landrush Rate

Consider Planning Now for Internationalized Top-Level Domains