Google Sued Over AdSense For Domains

Google is facing a class action lawsuit, being sued over its AdSense For Domains program. Google is being named along with a bunch of domainers, thanks to the program, which provides advertising for parked domains with no content. Google examines the URL of the website and fills up a page with nothing but ads contextually “relevant” to the URL.
Google is being sued as though it were the owner and operator of the domain, and thus a typosquatter for trademarked terms, since AdSense For Domains works not by providing ads, but by actually controlling and creating automatically the entire website. The program’s dirty, damn dirty, but Google sticks with it because of one fun statistic: Ads on parked domains can convert twice as well as ads on search engines. That’s too much of a cash cow for anyone to ignore, “Don’t Be Evil” notwithstanding.
(via TechDirt)

Original post by Nathan Weinberg