Warning to Typosquatters

If you’ve ever had the notion to do some typosquatting, you really must read Wayne Porter’s most recent blog post at Revenews.

For my more innocent readers - typosquatting is a form of cybersquatting which uses typographical errors made by surfers while typing a website address into a web browser. The surfer is then sent to an alternative address owned by the typo or cybersquatter.

For example, if you were a Brookstone affiliate, you might buy Broookstone.com, or Broostone.com and redirect traffic to the Brookstone.com site with your affiliate link.

Bad plan unless you want to end up in court.

Stay on the white side.

Cheers,
Ros

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