Google starts a new round of defensive registrations, locking hundreds of brand-related misspellings

In order to strengthen brand protection, Google recently registered a large number of misspellings related to its brand names, covering Alphabet, Android, Chrome and other well-known brands.

According to the disclosed information, the registration took place on April 25, including various common input errors such as alphaybet.com, alphcbet.com, and2oid.com, anddoid, chhrome.com, chrompe.com, etc. By locking these domain names in advance, Google can effectively prevent users from being directed to potential malicious websites due to spelling errors.

Although large companies generally adopt defensive registration strategies, it is very challenging to include all possible misspellings. Google may be able to use the traffic data in its own DNS service to prioritize the identification and prevention of the most common misspellings.

It is worth noting that although Google's parent company is called Alphabet, the domain name Alphabet.com is not actually in Google's hands. The official domain name currently used by Google is abc.xyz. Therefore, it has become one of the necessary measures to jointly protect misspellings related to "Alphabet".

Source: Domain Name Wire