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Microsoft "SiteFinder" Quietly Raking It In

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-your-typos-are-belong-to-us dept.

An anonymous reader writes in with the news, which isn't particularly new, that Microsoft's Internet Explorer sends typo domain names to a page of pay-per-click ads. In this endeavor Microsoft joins Charter and Earthlink in profiting from the dubious practice that Verisign pioneered but failed to make stick. The article is on a site whose audience is, among others, those who attempt to profit by typo-squatting, and its tone is just a bit petulant because individuals cannot hope to profit in this game on the scale Microsoft effortlessly achieves.

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  1. Nothing to see here... by shakestheclown · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Marked as lame.

    Inaccurate, and not to mention this kind of thing is listed as a feature of OpenDNS...

  2. hahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    MS corp spying on you from Windows 2000 times, if you as about DNS and even earlier - about keyloging in "some" version of software(debug, beta and etc...) from nt2 times and earlier ? who knows ? :) what else abou corp - sue-ing inoccent(he's NO purchase by self PC w/ preinstalled "no genuine" OS :) shool teacher and talking about "inproving" US Shool :)) of couse - "improving" by push out some mac's ? :) or even Linux box ? i'm not think so.. so bad idea of bad, bad guys here.... another bad idea.