Microsoft Tool To Help Users Avoid Typo Domains

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday April 14, 2006 @09:27AM 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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How Presumptuous by Jynx97 · 2006-04-14 11:52 · Score: 0, Troll

What if I intended to goto the site that was assumed a type-o. Isn't that like letting one company control the web? Would certain sites get on the "type-o list" due to "oversite", due to "over competition"? "Please disregard the man behind the curtain!"