Google domain names – the funny, strange and surprising
Google owns a whole bunch of domain names other than the obvious ones like google.com, blogger.com and gmail.com. We here at Pingdom decided to find out which ones, with some truly surprising results.
We only looked at .com domain names, and found thousands. Below are some of the more noteworthy .com domain names that Google owns.
Misspellings and typos:
- gewgol.com
- glougle.com
- goolgel.com
- glugli.com
- geggle.com
- georgle.com
- glogoo.com
- gmale.com
Totally unrelated:
- 30dayfitness.com
- bayareaburritos.com
- donationcard.com
- essentialmommy.com
- greengardengifts.com
- mariolovespasta.com
- thesecretofburritos.com
Why?
- 1p0g0og1e.com
- az-on-url-je.com
- goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
New services?
- google4kids.com
- googlebackups.com
- googleauction.com
- googlebroadband.com
- googlecasinogames.com
- googlefamily.com
- googlejokes.com
- googlelovers.com
- googlepersonals.com
Yes, we’re big:
- googlereligion.com
- googlefaith.com
Starting offline services?
- googlegym.com
- googledaycare.com
- bankgoogle.com
- googlepaperproducts.com
Geographical:
- googlenewyork.com
- googleonthegoaldcoast.com
- kuwaitgoogle.com
Not safe for work:
- googlesex.com
- googleporn.com
- google-yahoo-porn.com
- google-yahoo-sex.com
Buddies?
- googletimewarner.com
- ebay-google.com
- googlewarnerbros.com
Is this legal?
- googlewarez.com
The not so nice ones:
- checkoutsucks.com
- dejastinks.com
- frooglesucks.com
- fuckengoogle.com
- gmailblows.com
- gmailsucks.com
- googlefools.com
- googlemotherfucker.com
- googlepoo.com
- googlesucks.com
Pingdom likes:
- errorpageassist.com
- googlemonitoring.com
- googleclusters.com
- googlewebmonitoring.com
How we found these domain names
We found all of these domain names by processing the root zone file for the .com top-level domain. We also confirmed that the domain names in this post are owned by Google by looking at domain WHOIS information for the ones we included.
It is likely that many of these domain names have been registered by Google either to protect their brand, and in some cases to prevent typosquatting and similar practices. Google lawyers have surely been keeping busy reclaiming lots of Google-related domain names over the years.
For those interested, here is a complete Excel file with all .com domain names that point to the Google DNS servers ns1.google.com-ns4.google.com. Note that not all of them will be owned by Google (but most are) so you will need to confirm ownership with a WHOIS lookup.
We hope you found this collection interesting.


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Attila
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:59 am
“az-on-url-je.com” sounds as if it is meant to be interpreted in Hungarian. “Az Ön URL-je” simply means “Your URL” in Hungarian.
LiveCrunch
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:54 am
You think they will sell me google.com if I ask them?
I wish I had gphone.com
Technology Watch
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
This is Fishy!
* googletimewarner.com
* ebay-google.com
* googlewarnerbros.com
phillc
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
gogole.com
Don
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
1p0g0og1e.com looks like it’s one of a few dozen they have that look anything like “IPO Google” so I’d guess they’re all a few years old.
Bill
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
i hope i could own googlemicrosoft.com
evernefgizhimost
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
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Gau
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
The whole list of google domain names: http://www.vino2vino.com/google-domains.txt
Planet Malaysia
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
googlemalaysia.com malaysiagoogle.com for Malaysia!
V
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Well this isn’t just the only list. Google Inc. has 9,894 domains registered under their name. And guess what!,60% of these domains were registered itself in 2001, 35% in 2002 and 5% in 2003.
This is quite amazing and this might increase after some years looking at the present Search Engine Power.
Web Money?
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:54 pm
This is a cool post, some of those names are ridiculous like you said.
Codegods
April 24th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Most of them don’t work here. Perhaps you need to update that funny list
Levi Blackman
April 24th, 2008 at 7:50 am
They don’t “work” because Google registered them to keep others from getting them. Just because Google didn’t put anything to hold its place (I’m sure they don’t want everyone to know they own googlewarez.com).
Great list…I thought I had a few good ones myself, but it looks like I will need to build up my collection before I have anything to brag about.
Hartlepool
April 24th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Of course some of those domain names could have been taken from people who had registered them, thus breaching Google’s trademark.
Its doesnt really mean the big G went out and registered them all….
vid
April 24th, 2008 at 8:59 am
haha :]
vid
April 24th, 2008 at 9:00 am
fuckengoogle.com – haha :]
pedro
April 24th, 2008 at 9:05 am
NappyMonitor ? WTF
darr
April 24th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
There is also http://www.googel.com
Anand
April 24th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
# google-yahoo-porn.com
# google-yahoo-sex.com
Can Yahoo sue Google for owning trademark infringement?
swtpete_at_gmail
April 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Who owns GOOGLEISGOD.COM ?
givememedia
April 24th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
In reply to Anand – Yahoo can’t do anything about it unless they could prove that Google was in some way either benefiting from pretending to be a Yahoo service or if they were using the domain name in bad faith, i.e. to damage Yahoo’s image
Still I don’t see why either would see those domains as key – but obviously someone did to register it. Probably the same person that thought it would be vital to secure goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com(!)
Sounds to me like Google needs to hire a better domain name management specialist…
@balootisme.com
April 24th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
is there any chances Google are selling this on auction??
GooglePorn.com is enough for me… LOL
grześ
April 25th, 2008 at 1:38 am
i decoded the idns for You:
There’are 2 (chinese & korean?) I can’t seem to be able to paste here…
The second one is the weird az-on-url with a hungarian lettering, so Attila is right on…
咕果
az-ön-url-je
谷歌
gоοglе
gοоglе
gοοglе
gоοgle
gοоgle
gооgle
gооglе
gmaіl
gmаil
gmаіl
gοoglе
goοglе
gоogle
goоgle
gοogle
goοgle
gоoglе
goоglе
googlе
site-ul-dumneavoastră
?
April 25th, 2008 at 5:32 am
what is http://gogoogle.pl?
Mubin
April 25th, 2008 at 5:33 am
the googlesucks and gamilsucks type domains are probably bought because if someone else owned them GooGle can NOT sue for copyright infringement.
?
April 25th, 2008 at 5:33 am
gogoogle.pl are from google?
holhand
April 25th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
googhell
Daniel Anic
April 26th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
why not google.gouv?
thanks for your post.
Crazy
April 27th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Looks like many people have tested g{insert a lot of o}gle.com one time or another. I have. Why dont g secure all the gooooooooooooooooole.com etc domains? Nice list btw.
Stanley Builders
April 28th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Wow, google have a lot of domain names. Just goes to show though that its worth spending the money and registering potential domain names
taneru
April 28th, 2008 at 5:03 am
goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com ha ha ha !!!!
petnos
April 28th, 2008 at 5:28 am
very interesting. thanks for sharing.
Güzel Oyunlar
April 28th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Thanks
Abdallah
April 29th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Very Interesting
louis
April 29th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Tagged with:domain names, funny, google, humor, list, strange, Tips and tricks, …. Google y sus dominios web registrados. April 25, 2008 10:43 am
reah guevarra
May 1st, 2008 at 7:40 am
Oh.. great list here!!!
Na
May 12th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
One missing:
http://www.thegoogle.com
jeppe94
May 25th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
they forgot g00g13.com
esoomyzark
June 13th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
95% of those were fake. horrible article.
nigelmung'ala
August 13th, 2008 at 12:45 am
why on earth do they even come up with these names!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
justin
September 17th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Wow interesting post, would not imagine them owning so many domain names. However im concerned about fan based website http://www.googlefocus.com
Could this regarded as trademark infringement??
BIg G does have the money to able corner the market, popular search terms related keywords. Can someone argue that donationcard.com is not related to their business, and really they are squatting on some names. i have often wondered why they have not entered the domain name marketplace/registration.
justin.
Vince
September 26th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Nice list, I to see what Google is up to.
But Googleplanet.com GoogleUniverse.com
are there yet.
Antiq
January 24th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
looooooooooool
Avatar Oyunları
January 26th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Edmond T. Fett
February 27th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
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Jabari
April 6th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
You should put a few more ads on your site as you could probably make a lot of money. This is great writing.
alex farguson
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Can you provide more information on this?
Mike
July 10th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Great stuff!
Xbox Live Guy
August 13th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
The secretsofburritos.com?
I mean come on Google, what do they have a chef working there?
Free Microsoft Points
August 25th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Preventing domain squatting is the main reason for many of those.
Free Microsoft Points
September 1st, 2009 at 3:21 am
I must once again note that I liked the errorassist part
GoogleFaith is also not bad, maybe they are onto something?!
Thanks for the laughs…
YK
September 9th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
It seems that Google is using a 3rd party service that is registering possible illicit domain usage.
For many of the domains, the registrar is Markmonitor.com , which “Prevents illicit domain abuse tactics—such as cybersquatting and domain kiting—by using defensive domain registration to block others from exploiting domain names associated with your brand”
markmonitor.com
translate pdf
September 21st, 2009 at 3:23 pm
haha rofl
had a good laugh, thx! ;D
Shawn K.
January 24th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Seen it before, it really is an odd list.
I wonder if employees ever registered some as an internal joke.