Goo (search engine)

In 2004 and beyond, the search engine and information provision service of the portal site of the NTT provider such as OCN, Plala, WAKWAK, etc.

Goo" was a user participation type Q & A site, 2.88 million monthly visitors (as of January 2007), formerly partnered with "OK Wave".

[citation needed] Popcorn, of Kurashiki City in Okayama Prefecture, acquired the domain name goo.co.jp in August 1996.

In November 2000 NTT-X, then goo's operating company filed a request to the Industrial Property Arbitration Center (currently the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center) to relocate the domain, and in January 2001 the centre ordered the transfer of the domain.

Popcorn complained about this and raised an application for domain usage to the Tokyo District Court in opposition to NTT-X in February 2001.