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Is this a very bad joke?

Domain seems to be registered to a Paul Von Ribbeck with a gmail address, not a google address... makes me doubt its authenticity. A quick google search of Ribbeck brings up this: http://re-publica.de/user/1008/event/1

"Dr. Paul von Ribbeck considers himself both pro-tech and a digital protection evangelist. He is guided by his unwavering belief in the possibility of technology to solve the problems created by civilization. With a MSc from Yale University and a PhD from Stanford University in information security, he is now leading a team of 50 developers, mathematicians, lawyers and designers to build up the first global digital data insurance within the home of Google Nest."

THIS IS JUST WEIRD AND AWKWARD. DISCUSS.

Yes, but it's not one that Google will probably take kindly to given there's no indication on the site other than it's ridiculous and the whois e-mail. Even the whois registrant information is fraudulently attributed to Google.

Exactly - Here's Google's page to report a phishing site: https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?rd=1

It doesn't attempt to phish in any way.

There's no form to "Report a site that steals your trade dress and presents itself as a division of your corporation"

It's fake-- domain registered at eNom, hosted at namecheaphosting.com.

The name on the registration is "paulvonribbeck", which brings up an environmental activist with a history such shinnanigins: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/science-slam-ak...

Someone's gonna get sued for trademark violations.

They already received their C&D from Google, or the German equivalent in any case. It was very gently worded.

Here's the letter: https://imgur.com/Km8tYbH

No idea. The Google Bye thing, in particular, seems to be farcical.

That might be the one closest to a real product.

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2013/04/plan-your-dig...

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