In a sweeping move to defend its digital assets, Google has registered hundreds of typo domain names related to its major brands — including Alphabet, Android, and Chrome — as part of a massive defensive registration effort on April 25, 2025.

Examples of the typo domains include:

• Alphabet typos: alphaybet.com, alphcbet.com, amphabet.com

• Android typos: and2oid.com, anddoid.com, andrlid.com

• Chrome typos: chhrome.com, chr-ome.com, chrompe.com

While it\'s common for major corporations to secure popular misspellings of their domain names to prevent phishing and brand abuse, the sheer volume of Google’s recent registrations stands out.

Speculation suggests Google may have leveraged internal data — such as DNS traffic from its own public DNS service (8.8.8.8) — to identify commonly mistyped versions of its brand domains. This would allow the company to prioritize real-world typos over hypothetical ones.

Interestingly, Google doesn’t actually own Alphabet.com, which is owned by BMW Group. Its parent company Alphabet Inc. uses the abc.xyz domain. Thus, Google is proactively registering typos of a domain it doesn’t control, signaling just how far it\'s willing to go to mitigate confusion and abuse.

This move reflects Google’s ongoing efforts to enhance user safety and brand integrity amid growing cybersecurity threats and domain-based scams.