Playing with domain names is fun, especially when it comes to the likes of Google and the many variations with multiple o's in them. Find out what happens when you type the wrong number of o's in your URL bar.

Did you know that http://gogle.com and http://gooogle.com both redirect to google.com?
🔍 Bing.com is squatting goo*gle.com with 21 o's - i.e. this url leads to Bing: http://gooooooooooooooooooooogle.com 🔍
🦁 Brave.com seems to be randomly selected as target goo*gle.com with 31 o's - i.e., this url leads to Brave from time to time: http://gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com (it also often redirects to changing parking pages). Really wondering what / who is behind this.
😱 The same screwed up fake news / bitcoin scam website is squatting no less than 7 of the goo*gle.com domains with 20 o's or less
📣 There remain 5 domains with less than 42 o's available for sale, at an average cost of €188.6 per o - the cheapest one is http://gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com (31 o's), priced at €551.35 on Namecheap (strangely enough this is the one squatted by Brave)
🥳 Somehow I was lucky enough to find out that the ones with 30 and 34 o's were actually available for €7.31 each - a discount of 1000x per o's compared to the average of other available domains
🔮 I haven't investigated what comes after 42 o's...nor decided what I will do with my new squatting places - probably some random coding art!

See below the full result of analysis (data is from Namecheap, except from 5 o's which cost comes from GoDaddy).

Number of o's	Registered in	Cost (EUR)	Target
1	1998		google.com
2	1997		google.com
3	2000		google.com
4	2002		Fake news site
5	-	4109.7	Fake news site
6	2002		parking page
7	-	?	Fake news site
8	2002		Cool custom search engine
9	-		Fake news site
10	-	3987	Fake news site
11	2006		https://www.guedo-outillage.fr/
12	2003		n.a.
13	2003		n.a.
14	2003		n.a.
15	2009		Fake news site
16	2003		n.a.
17	2004		n.a.
18	2018		https://elgoog.im/
19	2004		n.a.
20	2012		Fake news site
21	2016		bing.com
22	2006		parking page
23	-	?	parking page
24	2004		parking page
25	2004		parking page
26	2005		parking page
27	-	895.33	https://www.feter-recevoir.com/
28	2004		n.a.
29	2005		n.a.
30	2021	7.31	parking page (one I just bought)
31	-	551.35	brave.com (not always)
32	2015		parking page
33	-	1596.45	parking page
34	2021	7.31	parking page (one I just bought)
35	2020		broken
36	2004		n.a.
37	2009		parking page
38	2005		parking page
39	2005		parking page
40	2009		parking page
41	PREMIUM	?	http://noaheisenbruch.com/
42	2019		https://thatshiphassunk.com/g8gl/

# Hacks

Bing (and Brave?) are squatting Goo*gle domains so I joined them