typosquat

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typosquat (third-person singular simple present typosquats, present participle typosquatting, simple past and past participle typosquatted)

To register a domain name likely to be mistyped by users.
- 2008, Jacqueline D. Lipton, Internet Domain Names, Trademarks and Free Speech‎^[1], page 263:
  Presumably it would be difficult to typosquat on a personalized Facebook username, provided that Facebook is vigilant about responding to complaints by trademark holders under its current online procedure.

Noun edit

typosquat (plural typosquats)

(uncommon) Such a domain name.
- 2008, Advanced Seminar on Trademark Law, Practising Law Institute, page 138:
  Trademark owners are registering IDN versions of their marks as domains, but there are many more typosquats made possible in these alternative scripts.

Translations edit

typo-based domain name

German: Tippfehlerdomain f