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This reminds me of https://gail.com/ which, according to the owner get an average 16k hit per day from people mistyping gmail.com

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Wow, that's interesting. I would have thought it would be fun to own a popular mis-typed domain, but apparently not.

>> As for why there is very little content here, we wanted to keep the server's attack surface as small as possible to keep it safe.

Gail is being very nice; according to that she could have 1.2 million misaddressed emails per week if she was not nice (which could potentially open her to legal liability, but still).

I see gamil.com emails all the time in the company database.

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