Facebook Acquired AccountKit.com Domain, Registers Other Typos

Facebook has acquired the domain name AccountKit.com and they have also just recently registered a lot of typo domain names related to AccountKit.com. Usually when a company registers a lot of typos for a domain name, they plan on using that domain name publicly–and expect that people might mistype the domain name.

Jamie Zoch first discovered all of these typo domain name registrations and posted about it on Twitter on March 19th:

Facebook Inc. acquires domain name AccountKit(.)com for undisclosed amount, also registers a ton of typo related domains. #facebook #domains

— Jamie Zoch (@yofie) March 19, 2016

Currently, I can’t find anything related to Account Kit, or even AccountKit.com in Google that would be related to their acquisition and why they’re so interested in all of these typo domains:

1ccountkit.com
2ccountkit.com
acc0untkit.com
acc9untkit.com
acciuntkit.com
accluntkit.com
acco7ntkit.com
acco8ntkit.com
accohntkit.com
accointkit.com
accojntkit.com
acconutkit.com
accoubtkit.com
accouhtkit.com
accoumtkit.com
accoun5kit.com
accoun6kit.com
accounfkit.com
accoungkit.com
accounktit.com
accounrkit.com
accountikit.com
accountikt.com
accountk1t.com
accountk8t.com
accountk9t.com
accountki5.com
accountki6.com
accountkif.com
accountkig.com
accountkir.com
accountkiy.com
accountkiz.com
accountkjt.com
accountklt.com
accountkot.com
accountkti.com
accountkut.com
accountlcit.com
accountlit.com
accountlkit.com
accountmit.com
accounykit.com
accounzkit.com
accourtkit.com
accoutnkit.com
accoyntkit.com
accozntkit.com
accpuntkit.com
accuontkit.com
acdountkit.com
acfountkit.com
acocuntkit.com
acvountkit.com
acxountkit.com
adcountkit.com
afcountkit.com
avcountkit.com
axcountkit.com
cacountkit.com
sccountkit.com
wccountkit.com
yccountkit.com
zccountkit.com

There are 64 different versions of “AccountKit.com”, and they obviously don’t want to “give away” any of the typo traffic to anyone else who may purchase those domains. Frankly, I personally think this is a little “overkill”, but perhaps this shows that they’re really planning on doing something huge with AccountKit.com?