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Google Wins 'Typosquatting' Dispute

Posted by timothy on from the wrongful-clacking dept.

JeiFuRi writes "The National Arbitration Forum has awarded Google the rights to several web addresses such as googkle.com, ghoogle.com, and gooigle.com, alleging that Sergey Gridasov of St. Petersburg, Russia, had engaged in 'typosquatting.' Business Week comments that Gridasov relied on typographical errors to exploit the online search engine's popularity so computer viruses and other malicious software could be unleashed on unsuspecting visitors."

2 of 201 comments (clear)

  1. How to defeat it? by John+Seminal · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Nah, that's just the usual proxy checks Slashcode employs.

    So, you can't enter an IP as a proxy in IE and trick slashdot?

    Anyone know the work around? How do you keep your identity secret and fool the proxy check?

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    Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."

  2. Re:C'mon! by Nosnam · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Would it also electrocute you for using "your" instead of "you're"