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Microsoft Tool To Help Users Avoid Typo Domains

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slashdot-is-not-a-typo dept.

blueZ3 writes "ZDnet is running a story on a new tool from Microsoft that aims to inform users when they reach 'typo domains'. Apparently, there's concern in Redmond that IE users are being exploited by companies running ad farms on typo domains. The tool uses an automated search routine to look for domains with particular types of typographical errors--transpositions, incorrect TLDs, missing letters--and then adds the domains to a database. The eventual goal (though this isn't clear from the article) seems to be something akin to Verisign's URL redirecting, where typo domains are blocked."

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  1. Argh! Dupe! by RobertB-DC · · Score: 3, Informative

    I thought for sure that there would be enough Subscribers send email to the DaddyPants address that this one would be yanked.

    Well, for reference, here are all the +4 and +5 comments from last week's installment of this story, so you karma whores can repost them and hope the moderators don't see through your ruse...

    Microsoft 'URL Tracer' Hunts Typosquatters

    Meanwhile, you can blame me for jinxing it.

    Ghost Article: M'soft Tool To Help Users Avoid Typo Domains

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  2. Re:first one up: by ch-chuck · · Score: 4, Informative

    have you every tried www.goggle.com ?
    It's pretty bad. A popup got around firefox, automatically starts a file download gsetup.exe, etc.

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