Sema.ru is no longer afraid of Google

The Russian design studio Sema.ru has registered the tradename Gmail.ru at Rospatent, to protect itself from seizure of the domain on the part of Google. The .ru zone has seen the like before: in 2004 the Google.ru domain, which belonged to a private individual was released to the search engine after a court case. However, the Gmail.ru site was registered 2Ѕ years before Gmail.com. Director of the Sema.ru studio Semen Budyenny bought the domain in early 2004 and set up his own mail service. It should be said that even a trademark cannot always give 100% confidence of success in a court proceedings relative to a domain name.