Meaning of typosquatter | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who engages in typosquatting.

Internet

Examples

“However, little has been written about an interesting and growing subspecies of cybersquatter: the typosquatter. Instead of registering domain names containing the trademarks of others, these folks take⟳ a lower-risk course of action. They look⟳ around and see⟳ which Web sites get⟳ the heaviest traffic. Then they register⟳, for themselves, domain names that consist⟳ of the likeliest typographical errors that users are may make⟳ when seeking to access these sites. Domain names like⟳ "amazom.com," "dismey.com" and so on.”

“The decline⟳ in traditional, direct⟳ cybersquatting was accompanied by a rise⟳ in a form⟳ of indirect cybersquatting known as typosquatting. A typosquatter attempts to cash in on the traffic generated by high-volume Web sites.”

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