Mikrosoft discovers malicious profiting from typos

aqls · Jan 24, 2006

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

-aqls-

olebean · Jan 24, 2006

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

wwwdomain.name · Jan 24, 2006

ooops

Oh dear

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

DN

Edwin · Jan 24, 2006

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".

olebean · Jan 24, 2006

It didn't work though did it

Edwin · Jan 24, 2006

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.

olebean · Jan 24, 2006

Edwin said:
it's still 1 article... it's not going to change the world overnight.

Thats what I meant

aqls · Jan 25, 2006

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.

-aqls-

olebean · Jan 25, 2006

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?