No You Can’t Have GoogleSucks.com

Pingdom, the Web site monitoring tool (we use it on CN), has published a list of some of the weird domain names Google owns. As someone who used to manage a very large domain list, most of these are smart moves. Things like "googlesucks" and "gmailblows" are good to purchase to make sure they don’t end up in the wrong hands.

Some others on the list include:

• googlepoo.com
• googlewebmonitoring.com
• googlewarez.com — aah the early 90s
• googlesex.com – call girl search engine
• googlenewyork.com – oh yea!
• googledaycare.com – get them while they are young
• goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com – yep, can you even count them without getting dizzy?
• thesecretofburritos.com – uhm, perhaps Google is getting into the content business?

Check out the full list on the Pingdom blog.

As a side note, if you are working on a startup, the Pingdom blog is a great learning tool about how to effectively use a blog to generate buzz and traffic. When people click the Pingdom link above to read more, they might venture out to the main Pingdom service. In any event, having a blog that pushes more than the normal product updates is critical to organic buzz generation.