New jargon word: ‘typosquatters’
Steve Safran August 23rd, 2006
Microsoft is suing people who take URLs designed to take advantage of a mistyped Microsoft URL. (And I’ve typed it as Microfost so many times, I’ve gone to these weasel sites before.) I wouldn’t have cared much about the story for LR - another MS lawsuit, yawn - but the portmanteau word in the headline caught my eye. As the longtime pusher of “viewsers,” I support any effort to coin a new word. In this case, people who squat on URLs designed to take avantage of bad typers are called “typosquatters.” I like it.
10 Comments Add your own
1. thelosangeleschannel | August 23rd, 2006 at 9:03 am
safran, should it bother you so, why not call in the lr legal team and go after the fine folks at pool.com? their lostresort.com “weasel site” is a blatant attempt to land a load of lr typosquatters.
2. Ted V. | August 23rd, 2006 at 1:27 pm
LA Channel: And your bias is in favor of all the different cityname/channel URLs you squat on, right?
Go to clickonmeetingplace (dot) com for more information on this person\’s holdings. Or do the DNS lookup.
3. themanhattanchannel | August 23rd, 2006 at 2:27 pm
by all means, please do.
but it was really just a joke, teddy.
4. thetampachannel | August 23rd, 2006 at 2:38 pm
btw- who is SQUATTING anyways????
last we looked we held 9 of the top 15 market names with the remaining 6 scattered amongst 4 other parties.
i will agree though, they are covetted. therefore we have decided NOT to pursue legal action at this time:)
5. Ted V. | August 23rd, 2006 at 2:48 pm
That’s a great business you got there. Touch a nerve, did I?
6. thedetroitchannel | August 23rd, 2006 at 3:07 pm
only with your tone of voice.
7. Crocodile Caucus » &hellip | September 11th, 2006 at 11:42 am
[...] I agree that typosquatters is a really great term, I think I’ll be using it myself in the future [...]
8. gregg martinez | September 30th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
is it legal i open a website selling atv parts
another domain name atvconnect
mine atvsconnect
now they are mad and make threats
9. Nico | November 26th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Interesting…
10. Lucy | January 14th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Wow, thanks for the excellent information!
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