Does it matter if Google can't have Gmail.cn?
March 3, 2007

A few days ago Reuters published an article about Google's attempts to buy the Gmail.cn domain from a Chinese company. It seems that Google has been frustrated in its attempts to get its hands on the domain, which was first registered back in 2003, before Google announced Gmail, by a Chinese domain registrar called ISM Technologies. Naturally enough, ISM runs a webmail service on the domain. They even use a multicolored logo that, while not a direct ripoff of the Gmail logo, is certainly suggestive. But this isn't a new story.

 

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