Firm fined £100k for using typos

[BREWSTERS]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17048251

 

[retired_member33]

Nothing good ever comes out of Amsterdam

 

[BREWSTERS]

Nothing good ever comes out of Amsterdam

No, all the good stuff stays there

 

[retired_member33]

Would be interesting to see which domains they used.

 

[Aaron Clifford]

The best bit about that article is the picture of the gloved man/woman on the laptop.

 

[wbwb is verified member.]

Would be interesting to see which domains they used.

Consumers who mistyped web addresses for Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia and instead visited sites including wikapedia.com and twtter.com were informed that they had won or could win prizes such as iPads and Mac Books, the regulator said. The "landing pages" on the 'squatted' sites "looked like the genuine sites" and "used the same logos, colouring and fonts".

http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/...sing-fake-sites-to-lure-competition-entrants/

Looks like those are still forwarding to prize draws, just no longer ones that look like the intended website.

 

[mojoco]

They got a nice BBC backlink in the foot of the article !