Domain Name Typos

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• Domain Name Typo - 1,310,000

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Articles

• Domain Name Typo Squatters Gaming Google
  • researchers at Microsoft revealing large-scale, typo-squatting schemes that use "multi-layer URL redirection to game Google's AdSense for domains program". According to this report, the Microsoft Research Systems Management Research Group succeeded in tracking a ring of typo-squatters registering misspelled domain names that generated traffic for serving advertising from Google.
    • Eweek article
    • One billion web users
    • Strider Honeymonkey detection - Find websites hosting malicious code
    • Example domain squatter: http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=wwwgamespot.com
    • Connecting web spammers with advertisers - http://research.microsoft.com/SearchRanger - War on Search Spam: Shifting the Battleground by "Following the Money"
      • "Researchers Track Down a Plague of Fake Web Pages," by John Markoff, The New York Times, March 19, 2007
        • The researchers' specific findings included evidence that some blog-hosting services have permitted an explosion of phony doorway pages. For example, the researchers noted that such pages were far more prevalent in Google's blogspot.com service than in other hosting domains.
        • http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~hchen/paper/www07.pdf
        • How to generate typos - http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1869
          • Strider typo-neighborhood generator
            • Missing-dot typos - forgetting dot before or after www or com
            • Character-omission typos - one missing letter
            • Character-permutation typos - swapping any two adjacent letters
            • Character-replacement typos - substituting adjacent letters
            • Character-insertion typos - additional adjacent letter

• • • • "Microsoft Tracks Down Mass Fake Web Pages," Slashdot, March 20, 2007
      • "Microsoft researchers follow Web spam money trail," by Ryan Naraine, ZDNet, March 19, 2007
      • "Research paper uncovers root of nuisance Web pages," by Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service, London Bureau, March 19, 2007

• Notes From Ken Ham Domain Name Business

• Forsale add for a typo domain - lnux.org - www.domainnametalk.com/showthread.php?t=3657

• Funny story about news article with mistyped domain - http://www.iol.ie/~kooltek/redfaces.html

• Google profit from typos - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002962245_google30.html
  • Example: bistbuy.com
  • Ben Edelman, a Harvard University researcher who has looked extensively into advertising on unused domains
  • Similar to adsense - Yahoo! and Australian firm Dark Blue Sea
  • Address bar type-ins may be 15% of internet traffic
  • Sedo - 1 million urls on adsense network - alternative to search engines
  • 5 days to change mind on domain name
    • Of the 30 million dot-com names registered worldwide last month, more than 90 percent were dropped, according to domain name registrar GoDaddy.com. As a whole, the Internet has 54 million active .com and .net addresses, according to VeriSign.
  • yahoo guidelines prohibit celebrity names, typos of trademarks and references to illegal activity.

• Opendns
  • http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6643589.html
    • OpenDNS has databases of phishing sites and will warn or block you if you try to visit them. OpenDNS can also correct typos for you, in ways that are helpful but that run counter to the official practices of the domain name system. For example, there are only a few sites with the extension .cm, but typing .cm instead of .com is a common typo. OpenDNS doesn't stop users from going to actual (not phishing) .cm domains, but it can optionally correct the typo in other cases and send a user to the dot-com site they intended to visit. It will also make more clear-cut changes, such as correcting .og to .org, and .cmo to .com.

• Domain typo generator http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/domain-typo-generator.shtml

• hyperlinkd.com - free hosted directories