Google: No You Can't Have GoogleSucks.com
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Pingdom, the Web site monitoring tool finds Google in possession of a number of domain names to protect its property from others.
Owning a domain name has become a huge business, recently domain name Pizza.com was sold for a staggering $2.6 million. And some others own related typing mistakes domain names such as geggle.com instead of google.com. Later, they try to sell this domain to the main owner for a large sum.
And there are others who try to denigrate the internet company’s name such as microsoftsucks.com or googlesucks.com and spread false propaganda or try to destroy the company name in the long run.
To prevent these problems later, companies like Google try to own related domain names also.
Pingdom has found that Google owns a number of domain names to prevent others from misusing it against them.
Below are some of the domain names 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 found these domain names by processing the root zone file for the google.com top level domain. They also confirmed it by verifying it with WHOIS domain information.
These are just a small number of domains Google owns, since there are number of domain extensions such as .eu, .ca, .uk, .au and others, Google must be owning even more domain name combinations.
Though Google owns most of these names, all are not hosted however like Googlesucks.com, when you click this link you will get a blank error message.
The larger the company, larger the domain names they have to own as shown above.
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Yes, as far as me Google Rocks :)
looking down the road to see what may be coming can make good business sense.
Bob, you are right, domains costs only a little compared to Google's revenues which runs in billions.
lol..I wonder what the total number of urls Google has claimed!! i reckon a lot more than a googol! and i wonder how much revenue those sites make where people think they are actually at an official Google site!! clever..
Thanks for the Pingdom link;)
This was an interesting read. I found the pasta and burritos ones very random.
Compusmart, actually they have more than 270 pages worth of names. Here is the PDF document in this link, contains all the Google owned domain names. It is incredible. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/want-gooooooo
Whitney, yes, some of the names are unlike Google, but who knows they may enter into restaurant business in the future :)
Once I misspelt Gmail.com and I got the message "You probably wanted to go to Gmail but still you can take some time to have a look at this site"...I don't remember how I spelt it but this is great job from Google.Great hub!cgull.
Thanks Abhinaya, Cheers :)
cgull8m ,
Your research is something to ponder over. Ot is a warning we should also have more names for our
website, Is it?
Yes Msms, there are sadly many who try to exploit best selling companies and try buying related names and make money sideways. So, it will be better if you buy related domain names also.
Thanks for that link cgull8m, very amuzing and interesting!!
Thanks Compu-smart, it is incredible, why do they need so many names :)
wow,really some interesting info.......I think a part from this major companies also own .net,.org etc,names of their domains as well to protect their websites.
Loved this Hub - the number of names they own is incredible. The "not so nice ones" are actually quite funny. Thanks, cgull.
Yeah but the were not able to get www.booble.com even though they tried really hard!!
I wonder how many URLs hubpages has!! lol
Parushing, Booble.com makes a lot of money I heard. Google missed out on that one.
Compu-smart, it will be interesting how many domains Hubpages has. :)
Funny. I tried to buy cingularsucks.com once, guess who owned it? Nice hub.
This is a creative hub.
For a company like google it makes perfect sense. Buying lots of domains protects its business. There are some really interesting sites in that list. Wouldn't googlereligion.com be SEO?
Peter it is hilarious :), but I think Cingular is just much better than AT&T.
Xim, that link doesn't work, probably Google doesn't want to use it for now. :)
Nice info nugget, I like this :-)
very proactive for the google mob!
Sakari, thanks.
Sentinal, I agree, also it shows they have other ambitions and projects in the future.
I think that people should really see the value in Domain names. Get them while you can, there is such a large amount of money to be made from them, specially if you know anything about SEO!
Those are some really weird domains that Google bought. Who knows, maybe they plan to take on Walmart in the future!
Google works mostly on the internet properties, if it is related to their main Search, social, video, they will buy it. Wal-mart is mostly owned by Walton families it will be tough to make them sell all of Wal-mart.
gewgol.com gets my vote. Kewl!
Fun hub, cgull. The TechCrunch comments were fun to read, too.
Amazing the different variations that they can come up with.
Donna
Thanks Sally, Donna, many of these domains Google will never use. As long they do a great job in Google, it will be fine. Cheers.
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Stacie Naczelnik says:
3 weeks ago
googlesucks...oh, they totally saw it coming, huh?