Hundreds of typo domains of its brands — Google registered
Google snaps up domains related to its brands to prevent them from falling into the hands of malicious actors.
Google is getting defensive.
On Friday, the firm registered hundreds of typo domains of its brands, counting Alphabet, Android, and Chrome.
These are samples of the of the domains the firm registered on April 25:
Alphabet typos: alphaybet .com, alphcbet .com, amphabet .com
Android typos: and2oid .com, anddoid .com, andrlid .com
Chrome typos: chhrome .com, chr-ome .com, chrompe .com
It’s common for firms to register typos of their key domains, but with so many variations, it’s difficult to imagine the firm capturing all of them.
It could utilize non-existent domain data from its own DNS resolution service to determine the most common domains people type in, though.
One interesting thing regarding these defensive registrations is that the firm doesn’t own Alphabet.com. Its corporate website is abc.xyz. In other words, it bought typos of another firm’s domain name.
