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Branded Typo Domain Names Cost Companies Millions According To Study

June 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

FairWinds Partners released a study about the costs of typosquatting the top 250 trafficked brand domain names. The lengthy report outlines traffic and revenue losses, poor user experiences, and a lot more. The single key take away from the study is that “typosquatting costs the brands associated with these sites $327 million per year” – [...]

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Sedo Sells Youtube Typo Domain For $4,242 – Yahoo Buys Sports Blog Domain BallDontLie.com

October 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Sedo posted some interesting sales today. First up a Youtube typo domain – youtugbe.com sold for $4,242 and is currently parked at Parked.com with Youtube as the domain’s title tag and title… looks like a clear case of trademark infringement and cybersquatting.
The other domain I found interesting is the domain balldontlie.com that sold for $3,250. [...]

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Is TechCrunch Cybersquatting And Redirecting A Twitter Typo Domain?

October 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Typo domains come in a variety of forms but one of the most common besides misspellings is “www” added to the actual domain such as: wwwtwitter.com notice that it’s all one word, which is the domain that is redirecting to TechCrunch. According to a whois lookup the domain is registered GoDaddy, created 11/04/2007 with an [...]

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