Google your next phone
Google doesn't care about buying all thos domain names: potential buyers will google "nexus one" and hit the right page, whatever it's called.
More problems with the branding of Google's "Nexus One" handset were claimed today, as it was highlighted that Mountain View has not secured the relevant web addresses. The firm's first foray into physical retailing was announced at the Googleplex on Tuesday. Today it emerged that Nexusone.com has been owned by Peter …
What rubbish. Do consumers looking for info on the "Nexus One" type nexusone.co.uk into their browser then spend the rest of the afternoon reading about smoky jazz? I don't think so. I think they type "nexus one" into Google ... and Google's got them even before the search results come back.
"He doesn't seem to be using it for anything in particular"
Well if you will link to www.nexusone.com/blank.html, it's hardly surprising you get a blank page. Pop over to www.nexusone.com itself and it directs you to one of a selection of slightly crappy looking sites (apparently via a service called urlsplit), so it's obvious that the owner of the site is making good use of all the bonus traffic flowing his way.
@Luc Le Blanc
@AC:
Sure, that seems rather obvious. But wouldn't that put Mr. Villanueva and Sion at a competitive disadvantage, especially if they pay for AdSense? Stealing traffic for themselves when there are legitimate results that would have matched perhaps at a higher rank may give fuel to conspiracy theorists and the anti-trust police.
-dZ.
Full Disclosure: I nicked the above from /. here:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1500796&cid=30681238
The mere possibility of such a headline in El Reg should have ensured the 'he stole our imaginary property' cries from PKDicks daughter got a whole story to itself..