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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."

3 of 179 comments (clear)

  1. Slippery Slope by McGiraf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oups!

  2. Please use the Redundant moderation by Foolicious · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How many tools not only posted the same joke about redirecting to microsoft.com, but also thought they were they first one to think of it? Predictably ridiculous. And tiresome.

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  3. Re:Argh! Dupe! by pimpimpim · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    yeah, same here, I missed both the two earlier ones last week, first instant I find here.

    I'm pretty ok with the "dupe" tag warning you before you start reading the post, and people that already read it can skip it.

    But then again, I didn't pay for my subscription ;)

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