Every Fortune 500 Company Has Been Hit By Typosquatting

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Every Fortune 500 Company Has Been Hit By Typosquatting

09-01-2007, 01:32 PM,

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Every Fortune 500 Company Has Been Hit By Typosquatting

Quote:The world's 500 biggest companies have all fallen victim to typosquatting. OUT-LAW research has found that the fast-growing trend of making ad money from web domains similar to famous brands affects all the world's biggest firms.

Typosquatting is the profiting, through adverts, from websites whose addresses are very close to famous brand names. A typical site could be microsift.com. When visitors go to a typosquatter's site they see adverts which, when displayed, pay the site operator a small fee...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/29/...osquatted/

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