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Google 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
royal.pingdom.com/royalfiles/0804_google_domains.xls