It appears that Perplexity ai platform has been bought over by Google…unless Google is blatantly violating trademark law and NIXI is ignoring the violation and GoDaddy is assisting the violation.
For the last few days it has been observed that the domain name www.perplexity.in redirects automatically to https://gemini.google.com/app.
This situation can arise only if Gemini/Google has registered the domain name perplexity.in or the domain name server of ICANN has been poisoned.
Since Perplexity is a well known brand name and it is a competitor to Gemini.ai, there is a clear trade mark violation unless Perplexity has willingly allowed Gemini to take over the domain name.
We checked the who-is information of the domain name which unfortunately is registered with Godaddy with a privacy protection mechanism that hides the information about the owners of the domain name. The obvious reason is “Privacy”.
As we have repeatedly pointed out, there is no “Personal Privacy” that can be an excuse to the domain registration since the registration is for business and there is no “Personal Privacy” either in India or US.
Now Privacy protection is the domain of DPDPA and Meity needs to re-visit the practice of domain name registrars to redact registrant details of domains using “Privacy” as an excuse. Domain name registration is for hosting electronic documents for public view and hence the registrant information must be considered as “Public”.
I also request one of the public spirited lawyers to take up this issue with a Court and get a direction that domain name registrants should not redact the registrant information and make the legal address of the registrant available for public to raise any dispute if required.
Assuming that Google is unlikely to so brazenly violate the IPR law, the presumption is that Perplexity has been sold out and any data shared with Perplexity may now be under access of Google. This disclosure is a mandatory requirement for Perplexity without which they will be in violation of DPDPA.
Comments are welcome.
Naavi
