Fashion house Chanel handed victory recently when the Court found that the company may seize domain selling fake Chanel goods. Part of the settlement, however, also requires search engines and social networks to de-list these sites from their results.
Search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, as well as social networks like Facebook, Google, and Twitter should + de-index or remove “of each search results page” Web site in question, in accordance with the ruling, handed down in the Court district of Nevada.
If the Court found that the site had the power to be restored, the search engines and social networks will be notified.
Full site, meanwhile, will return to the registrar GoDaddy.com. Anyone who visited those sites in the near future will see copies of court documents in the case.
As Ars Technica notes, Chanel has gone after the domain name almost 700, with more added every time that the company found them. Chanel have investigators order goods from the offending site and when they are certified as a fake, the company filed a lawsuit.