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What’s In A Name: The State of Typo-Squatting 2007

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Indianchild.com, a site devoted to Indian children, shares the same address, less an “a”, with indinchild dot com, an adult typo squatter. 
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This same content is served to americasgirl dot com, a URL remarkably similar to the popular high-end doll home page of americangirl.com. 
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Caption: Example where Microsoft has advertised on a dot-cm squatter of itself.
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Caption: Example where Google.cm re-directs to this site which resulted in 482 spammy e-mails

McAfee has chosen to rate yellow (or “caution”) any site that triggers our typo-squatter criteria. This rating is lower than our red (or “warning”) label.  

McAfee could but does not currently re-direct traffic away from typo-squatted domains for users of its SiteAdvisor software.  

  • Microsoft offers a free tool that allows interested individuals to find and analyze squatters.
  • F-Secure looked at squatters who targeted the security industry.