TypoSquatting - The 25 Worst Web Sites
29 04 2007The 25 Worst Web Sites
PC World - No that’s not a typo; it’s “typosquatting,” where a site owner deliberately registers a misspelling of a popular domain in the hopes of attracting the actual site’s traffic. Cartoonnetwok was one of some 5500 deceptive domains owned by John Zuccarini
The porn free PC (page 1)
PC Authority - Typosquatters’ buy domain names very similar to popular sites, in order to make money from the inevitable typing mistakes people make from time to time. www.alo.com is a prime example of typosquatting, and captures traffic from would-be AOL.com
F-Secure Corporation Data Security Summary
F-Secure - Typosquatting for careless typists Earlier this year we saw evidence of typosquatting with the Google surfers mispelling it as googkle leading them to all manner of malware ridden sites instead. In the autumn, an even larger exploit
Web Developers Say ‘Show Me The Money’
InternetNews.com - Earlier this month I reported on a service called TypoSquasher , an on-demand or Software as a Service (SaaS) system from CitizenHawk that crawls the Web to search for possible misspellings of domain names, identifies instances of “typosquatting” that
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