Google

Yikes! I fell into this one while cleaning out the spam filters in the comment section. Seems that someone was spamming google1.com. It turns out that that's a legitimate domain, owned by Google. Having it show up in comment spam probably means that it's a test message. The interesting part is if you type "whois google" (with or without the trailing ".com"). You get the following return:

• GOOGLE.XDNICE.NET
• GOOGLE.WAIKOOL.COM
• GOOGLE.TRENDYMP3.NET
• GOOGLE.TCONV.NET
• GOOGLE.SKGPUBLISHING.COM
• GOOGLE.SITNIK.NET
• GOOGLE.RU286.COM
• GOOGLE.RU
• GOOGLE.PAASEI.NET
• GOOGLE.MOLDOR.COM
• GOOGLE.MELBOURNEIT.COM.AU
• GOOGLE.MARS.ORDERBOX-DNS.COM
• GOOGLE.MADE-IN-NB.COM
• GOOGLE.IFREEBSD.COM
• GOOGLE.IE
• GOOGLE.FUTUREWORKSONLINE.COM
• GOOGLE.FR
• GOOGLE.FI
• GOOGLE.ES
• GOOGLE.EARTH.ORDERBOX-DNS.COM
• GOOGLE.DE
• GOOGLE.CYGRATIS.BE
• GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
• GOOGLE.COM.VN
• GOOGLE.COM.UA
• GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
• GOOGLE.COM.PLZ.GIVE.A.PR8.TO.AUDIOTRACKER.NET
• GOOGLE.COM.MX
• GOOGLE.COM.IS.POWERED.BY.MIKLEFEDOROV.COM
• GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
• GOOGLE.COM.IS.APPROVED.BY.NUMEA.COM
• GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
• GOOGLE.COM.BR
• GOOGLE.COM.AU
• GOOGLE.COLORSEE.COM
• GOOGLE.CO.UK
• GOOGLE.CO.JP
• GOOGLE.CNIELIVE.COM
• GOOGLE.CL
• GOOGLE.CHENNAIEXPRESS.COM
• GOOGLE.CH
• GOOGLE.CANT.SET.THEIR.SERVERS.TO.GENERATE.THE.TRAFFIC.LIKE.CRAWLINGCLOUT.COM
• GOOGLE.CA
• GOOGLE.ADRIANP.NET
• GOOGLE.8LEGS.NET
• GOOGLE.51-HELP.COM
• GOOGLE.NET
• GOOGLE.COM

While some of those are legitimate, many are not. I wonder how much trouble Google has defending their trademark.

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