Re-directing spelling mistake domain's to the original ones.

Does this help Search engine's?

[sidyadav]

I was just looking over the Whois , and I saw all the popular search engine's have register domain's that can be written as a typing mistake and that re-direct to the original domain's , For example Alltheweb.com has these domain's registered re-directing to the original ones:
www.Allethweb.com
www.Allethweb.net
www.Allethweb.org
www.Alltehweb.com
www.Alltehweb.net
www.Alltehweb.org
www.Allthewbe.com
www.Allthewbe.net
www.Allthewbe.org
www.Alltheweb.com
www.Alltheweb.net
www.Alltheweb.org
www.Altheweb.net
www.Altheweb.org

Pretty Good, Let's see Google's domain's:
www.Gogle.com
www.Gogole.com
www.Googel.com
www.Googil.com
www.Google.biz
www.Google.net
www.Google.us
www.Googlecache.com

Pretty good , But as almost every person that uses the Internet for anything , Know's Google, so it is well known.

But What about ATW? I only came to know ATW when I joined this Forum! I use to use Google , as my search engine and didn't even use to try AV , ATW , LS, Giga Blast and stuff.

So will re-directing domain's help ATW to get traffic? And also , Why don't sites like GigaBlast (Low Popular search engine's) do that? Will this bring them traffic?

-Sid

[buckworks]

They may pick up some type-in traffic that way, but I suspect that a bigger goal is to protect their branding.

I've seen domains based on typos of established businesses that were used for popup hells. Bad news all around!

[BlueSky]

Below are some more google domains. I agree that companies will often register misspellings to protect their branding. I did. Sometimes they gain domains after filing and successfully winning a complaint w/ ICANN or a lawsuit against infringers.

google.org
google.info
googlecom.com
wwwgoogle.com
wwwgoogle.net
wwwgoogle.org
wwwgoogle.us
googleproxy.com
googlebot.com
googlebot.net
googlebot.org

[msr986]

Don't forget the Google mirror site:

moc.elgoog.www [alltooflat.com] ;)

[sidyadav]

So Now the list is:
google.org
google.info
googlecom.com
wwwgoogle.com
wwwgoogle.net
wwwgoogle.org
wwwgoogle.us
googleproxy.com
googlebot.com
googlebot.net
googlebot.org
gogle.com
gogole.com
googel.com
googil.com
google.biz
google.net
google.us
googlecache.com
and ofcourse google.com

Big list...