Typosquatting

How many "o" are in your Google

[JerryOdom]

Just for kicks I started typing in goooooooooooooooooooooooooogles into whois.

Turns out Google doesn't own the one with 4 o's, 6 o's, 7 o's.....welll you get it. And after that it gets a little silly but Google does own many of them all the way up to 20 o's where I gave up.(dats a pretty big gooo)

[httpwebwitch]

repeat the experiment with Yahooooooo.

[Hester]

The following .co.uk domains all work:

gogle
googl
oogle
ggle

:-)

[DamonHD]

Just saw a referer of images.gppgle.com in my stats, and yes it works!

Rgds

Damon

[Hester]

We can surmise that other letters close to 'o' on the keyboard might also be registered. Haven't tried these but I bet they work:

giigle
gllgle
gkkgle

('i', 'l' and 'k' are next to 'o' on my keyboard.)

It's like the person who registered a mis-spelling of 'microsoft' to catch careless surfers once.

Also, I wonder what happens when a new TLD comes out and the Big G hasn't registered it yet? Would some with something like google.eu get sued for it?