Microsoft Tool To Help Users Avoid Typo Domains

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."

Comments

There is a much easier way....

[wowbagger]

There is a much easier way to block 99% of the typosquatters - they have a very small number of IP addresses they park their domains on.

Block those IP addresses, block the squatters.

Check it out for yourself - fire up your favorite DNS query tool, and plug in some typos.