Monday, September 12, 2005

Weird domain names

Have you typed blogspot wrong yet? (blogpsot).

So what is the technical term for getting domains with mispelted words trying to attract sloppy (or drunk) typists?

UPDATE: the term I was looking for was typosquatting. It is sort of a form of cybersquatting, except that it doesn't use up the useable domain name. It is not as nefarious as pharming, which is really fooling the user with a fake web page intended to look like the real one.
--gh

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