End of last week did Google acquire a large amount of domains around the phrases: “Claim Your Content”, “Claim My Content” and “Claim Our Content”

CLAIMYOURCONTENT
CLAIM-YOUR-CONTENT
CLAIMMYCONTENT
CLAIM-MY-CONTENT
CLAIMOURCONTENT
CLAIM-OUR-CONTENT

Registered TLDs: .COM, .NET, .ORG
Country specific TLDs: .FR, .DE, .CH, .CO.UK etc.

WWWCLAIMYOURCONTENT
WWWCLAIM-YOUR-CONTENT

Registered TLDs: .COM, .ORG, .NET

Garrett Rogers from Googling Google Blog speculates that the domains could be used to offer webmasters a tool to fight scrapers and others that steal content from your website.

Sam Harrelson from CostPerNews.com speculates that this might be an attempt to allow for users to claim (and thereby easily monetize) content from the wide variety of content producing platforms.

An effective system to fight content theft and scraping would be great.

Anything Google would come up with to solve or at least reduce those problems would be helpful, but if that is what those domains might be used for, I would like to know how they would solve problems like:

• Verify that sites that claims content as their own are actually the rightful owner of the content
• Prevent scrapers or rouge webmasters that steal content to claim content from others as their own
• Allow content owners to white-list sites that do have permission to re-purpose some of their content (press releases, free to re-print articles etc.)

Lets see when does google reveal its new tool..

Enjoy:)

claim your content, google, google new domain