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Google domain names – the funny, strange and surprising

Google logoGoogle 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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143 Comments

“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.

You think they will sell me google.com if I ask them? :) :)

I wish I had gphone.com

This is Fishy!
* googletimewarner.com
* ebay-google.com
* googlewarnerbros.com

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.

i hope i could own googlemicrosoft.com

Евро недвижимость самые элитные квартиры Москвы, лучшие оффисы в центре.
снять оффис

googlemalaysia.com malaysiagoogle.com for Malaysia!

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.

This is a cool post, some of those names are ridiculous like you said.

Most of them don’t work here. Perhaps you need to update that funny list ;)

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.

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….

fuckengoogle.com – haha :]

NappyMonitor ? WTF

# 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 ?

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…

is there any chances Google are selling this on auction?? ;)

GooglePorn.com is enough for me… LOL

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

the googlesucks and gamilsucks type domains are probably bought because if someone else owned them GooGle can NOT sue for copyright infringement.

gogoogle.pl are from google?

googhell

why not google.gouv?
thanks for your post.

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. :)

Wow, google have a lot of domain names. Just goes to show though that its worth spending the money and registering potential domain names

goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com ha ha ha !!!!

very interesting. thanks for sharing.

Tagged with:domain names, funny, google, humor, list, strange, Tips and tricks, …. Google y sus dominios web registrados. April 25, 2008 10:43 am

Oh.. great list here!!!

they forgot g00g13.com

95% of those were fake. horrible article.

why on earth do they even come up with these names!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

Nice list, I to see what Google is up to.
But Googleplanet.com GoogleUniverse.com
are there yet. ;)

Hi nice post, i read your blog from time to time but i was wondering something. I also run a blog on a similar topic, but i get 1,000’s of spam comments and emails every day does that happen to you.. Any ideas to stop it? I currently have commenting disabled but i want to turn it back on.. Thanks!

You should put a few more ads on your site as you could probably make a lot of money. This is great writing.

Can you provide more information on this?

The secretsofburritos.com?
I mean come on Google, what do they have a chef working there?

Preventing domain squatting is the main reason for many of those.

I must once again note that I liked the errorassist part :D GoogleFaith is also not bad, maybe they are onto something?!

Thanks for the laughs…

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

haha rofl

had a good laugh, thx! ;D

Seen it before, it really is an odd list.
I wonder if employees ever registered some as an internal joke.

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