Meaning of typosquatting | Babel Free

Definitions

A form of cybersquatting that involves the registration of domain names likely to be mistyped by users.

Internet, uncountable

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Examples

“It's a technique, a sort of "typosquatting," that Maly has used repeatedly. A Web site called "Jobonline.cz" was registered last March and two months later Maly bought jobsonline.cz.”

“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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