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Affiliate links: The fake site redirects traffic back to the brand through affiliate links to earn a commission from all purchases via the brand's legitimate affiliate program.

Monetize traffic: Fake website owners put up advertisements or popups to generate advertising revenue from webpage visitors.

Surveys and giveaways: The dummy website presents visitors with a feedback form or a survey armed to steal sensitive information.

Related search results listing: Owner uses traffic that was meant for the real site to drive traffic to competitors, charging them on a cost-per-click basis.

Joke site: The site makes fun of the trademark or brand name.

Imitators: The scam website mirrors the identity of the victim website to perform a phishing attack.

Domain parking: The typosquatted domain owner attempts to sell the domain to the victim at a heightened price.

Bait and switch: The fake website sells you something you would like to purchase at the correct URL, but doesn't send you the item.

Popular uses of typosquatted domains include:

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These cybercriminals develop malicious websites that could try to install malware, install ransomware (such as WannaCry), steal credit card numbers, phish personal information. Not all typosquatting efforts are motivated by cybercrime, but many owners of typosquatted domains do act in bad faith. The prevalence of Typosquatting has grown to the point of forcing large companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft to either register typographical error variations of their domain or block potential typosquatting domains through The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN) service.

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Abuse of Country Code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD): twitter.cm vs leading a person who left out a letter away from the real site.

Supplementing popular brand domains: If well-known brands are supplemented with appropriate words, they may produce a legitimate-sounding typosquatted domain name, e.g.

Hyphenated domains/combosquatting: This involves omitting or adding a hyphen in order to illegally direct traffic to a typo-domain e.g.

Alternative spellings: Users may be misled by the abstract spelling of services, brand names or products.

Another common domain extension error is typing '.com' instead of a '.org'

Wrong domain extensions: As more top-level domain (TLD) names are added, so does the likelihood of typosquatting sites.

Especially if the domain name is an invented word.

Misspelling: MIsspelled domains are a very common occurrence.

Typos: Mistyped web addresses of well-known brands in the address bar, such as '.'.

There are at least eight kinds of typosquatting: This can be a major cybersecurity risk if your business gets a large volume of traffic. Typosquatters also had their sights on URLs like, ,, ,, and due to their close physical proximity to g. One of the earliest examples of a typosquatting cybercrime was in 2006 when Google was the victim of typosquatting by the site, widely considered to be a phishing/fraud site. If a user makes a mistake while typing a domain name and fails to notice it, they may accidentally end up on an alternative website set up by the cybercriminals. Typosquatting is made possible by typos, misspellings or misunderstandings of a popular domain name. Fraudulent website owners could leverage this identity theft to sell competitive products, or worse, trick users into a Personal Identifiable Information breach. Internet users are usually unaware that they're navigating, or even shopping, on a dummy website. Cybersquatters register domain names that are a slight variation of the target brand (usually a common spelling error). In connection with the Bustle “Dord” item from Webster’s, please see From foupe to nuts.Typosquatting, or URL hijacking, is a form of cybersquatting targeting people that accidentally mistype a website address directly into their web browser URL field. This sort of shifting the blame onto others is perhaps reminiscent of Mr Baldwin’s current most famous mimic target. Two stools are there to be fallen between. But I doubt they did, and as so often it is dangerous to assume anything is going to be done if nobody’s actually agreed to it. If HarperCollins did make a deal with Baldwin that they would ensure the absence of typos, well maybe he has a point. Of course, I guess the deal with a celebrity author is likely to be a bit different than when your author is an academic, keen to advance their reputation. Does the author not have any responsibility? Parenthetically I might say I think Alec Baldwin is doing nothing for his reputation by bitching about HarperCollins’ allowing typos into his book. How do you discover this sort of thing? (Nice touch that in a piece on typos they manage to insert an inverted comma in the title of Joyce’s book.)

I rather like the “Come in” included in the dictation of Finnegans Wake.

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