bayasfen.blogg.se - Typo definition

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TYPO DEFINITION CODE

To express an opinion that is different from the intended website's opinion.To harvest misaddressed e-mail messages mistakenly sent to the typo domain.

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To install drive-by malware or revenue generating adware onto the visitors' devices.

As a phishing scheme to mimic the brand's site, while intercepting passwords which the visitor enters unsuspectingly.

To redirect the typo-traffic back to the brand itself, but through an affiliate link, thus earning commissions from the brand owner's affiliate program.

To redirect the typo-traffic to a competitor.

To monetize the domain through advertising revenues from direct navigation misspellings of the intended domain.

In order to try to sell the typo domain back to the brand owner.

There are several different reasons for typosquatters buying a typo domain: Spam emails sometimes make use of typosquatting URLs to trick users into visiting malicious sites that look like a given bank's site, for instance. Once in the typosquatter's site, the user may also be tricked into thinking that they are in fact in the real site, through the use of copied or similar logos, website layouts, or content.

Appending terms such as sucks or - suckes to a domain name.

Doppelganger domain - omitting a period or inserting an extra period.

Combosquatting - no misspelling, but appending an arbitrary word that appears legitimate, but that anyone could register.

TYPO DEFINITION CODE

An abuse of the Country Code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) (.cm.

A different top-level domain: (i.e.com instead of.

A misspelling based on a typographical error.

A common misspelling, or foreign language spelling, of the intended site.

The typosquatter's URL will usually be one of five kinds, all similar to the victim site address: Should a user accidentally enter an incorrect website address, they may be led to any URL (including an alternative website owned by a cybersquatter).

Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, a sting site, or a fake URL, is a form of cybersquatting, and possibly brandjacking which relies on mistakes such as typos made by Internet users when inputting a website address into a web browser. An incorrectly entered URL could lead to a website operated by a cybersquatter.