Typo-Squatters

[texidriver]

Researchers at Microsoft Corp. have blown the lid off a large-scale, typo-squatting scheme that uses multi-layer URL redirection to game Google's AdSense for domains program.

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

I think typo-domains are wrong

Would you buy a Frod car, a Losst DVD, a pint of Guiness ?

 

[Brassneck]

What do forum members think of non-commercial typos - e.g. misspellings of words like property? Fair game or sleazy too?

Stephen.

 

[tifosi]

Same here.

I don't reg typo's, personal names, or company names (unless I find out well after the reg that there's some obscure company with that name...). Even so, generic words/compound words/etc only

S

 

[Lucky Luke]

Typo-squatters on trademarks may be wrong, but some of them make a bundle of money, and they are seldom challenged.

For me as a virtual newbie, the temptation has been removed as most of the typos have already been reg'd...

If I was going to do it - and I won't - I'd make sure there was enough of a reward for taking the risk. (As one bloke told me when I was travelling around India years ago, 'If you're going to eat shit, eat elephant shit'.)

Typos on generics? - Fair game in my view.

 

[bb99]

(As one bloke told me when I was travelling around India years ago, 'If you're going to eat shit, eat elephant shit'.)

I seldom hear better advice than that - many thanks