typosquatters
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Noun edit
typosquatters
- plural of typosquatter
- 1998 September 11, Robert C. Cumbow, “Day of the Typosquatters”, in The Internet Advertising/Marketing Law Report[1], archived from the original on 3 December 1998:
- Another permutation of this tactic is to register as a domain name the entire address, or URL, of a popular Web site, anticipating that a certain percentage of users will leave out the dot. Thus, "wwwamazon.com" or "wwwdisney.com" become domain names in their own right. There are hundreds of such typographical errors registered as domain names; the majority of them have been registered by just two or three typosquatters.