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Mikrosoft discovers malicious profiting from typos

Discussion in 'Domain Industry News' started by aqls, Jan 24, 2006.

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  1. aqls

    aqls Well-Known Member

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    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1903695,00.asp

    In essence, Msoft uses the "strider typo-patrol system" part of the "honey monkey exploit detection system" to discover that PEOPLE ARE REGISTERING TYPOS AND SERVING GOOGLE ADSENSE ADS ON THEM.

    I fear this is a dangerous development and we should report any tpyos to the ploice.co.uk

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    Doh!!

    I wonder how much they spent on research and development to find the answer.....

    Most of us could have told them that for free or a small fee
     
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    ooops

    Oh dear:rolleyes:

    I just bagged wwwprosports.com (selling on ebay) when prosport.com is selling on ebay currently at $13k+

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  5. Edwin

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    This was a dirty trick Microsoft played, because both major competitors (Google and Yahoo!) participate in domain parking programs, whereas Microsoft doesn't have the service (yet) so this kind of article hurts G/Y! but not M. They had to put in a whole bunch of jargon to make it seem like "tech news".
     
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    It didn't work though did it
     
  7. Edwin

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    Sure it did - it got some attention in the press. And many of the parking providers have accelerated efforts to boot TM/typos off of their services. But at the end of the day, it's still 1 article... it's not going to change the world overnight.
     
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    Thats what I meant
     
  9. aqls

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    I agree with Edwin completely.

    It's effective PR.

    It's also dirty PR.

    With every press release and article sent by MS, you have to read underneath the words.

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  10. olebean United Kingdom

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    It may be dirty etc. that business life. its a no brainer especially without a seen plausible alternative and since MSN is served by yahoo.

    Come on guys what do microsoft hope to gain?? Search purification for MSN, which is equally a no brainer, advertising bugets would deminish, the number of domain disputes would rise and in turn so would revenue chargeable by MSN. Unless they charge for submission! hmmm! Pointless when the brandable/generic domains are known.

    Unless microsoft intend to place a search engine such as yahoo into their portfolio of companies and the bad publicity is intent on reducing the companies value. Or microsft have developed a script and intend to launch it with the next 6-12 months and the publicity is meant to destablise ad campagns.

    Why do it?

    Total waste of rescource unless I have read it incorrectly?
     
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