Registering common misspellings of popular website domain names is a big business. A recent study found that 80% of all possible one-character typographical variants of Facebook, Google, and Apple are registered. Registering close misspellings of domain names is know as “typosquatting.”
Security company Sophos recently analysed all the possible one-letter variations of six popular websites, a whopping 2249 unique site names. Of the 2249 possibilities, 67% or 1502 domain names were actually registered. Many ...
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