Typosquatters make millions in domain name trade

Posted on February 14, 2008 
Filed Under Just Make Money Online, Online Entrepreneurship

Shady companies are making big bucks buying domain names with trademark-infringing characteristics and then creating Web pages full of advertising links.A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary is giving insight into the enormous sums of money that can be made by creating Web pages full of advertising links.

In October, Dell sued a group of domain registrars, alleging the companies bought more than 1,100 domain names with trademark-infringing characteristics, such as “dellbatterrogram.com” in order to put advertising links on the pages.
The practice, known as typosquatting, is illegal. It’s intended to draw unwitting Web surfers to pages with URLs (uniform resource locators) that are similar to legitimate sites, and then redirect them to other sites. The owners of these Web sites get revenue from advertising referral programs every time a link is clicked.  more

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