Misspelled Domain Names

External Since: Jul 14, 2003 Posts: 15

I'm curious if anyone would know how much traffic a domain name can generate
if the name is a misspelled domain name of one of the more popular websites.

For instance, if someone registered tahoo.com, how many people would
misspell yahoo.com and end up at tahoo.com?

External Since: Jun 28, 2003 Posts: 43

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> I'm curious if anyone would know how much traffic a domain name can
generate
> if the name is a misspelled domain name of one of the more popular
websites.
>
> For instance, if someone registered tahoo.com, how many people would
> misspell yahoo.com and end up at tahoo.com?

The short answer would be: Not very likely.

The long answer:
Most people looks down at the keyboard to make sure they at least hit the
first letter right. If you go from there, Yahoo Inc. has already covered the
interesting ones. Besides, why would you research on something like this?

I've only had 1 close encounter due to misspelling of a domain name. My
business domain name is kaa.no, and one day I noticed an e-mail dropping
into the catch-all e-mail account (due to an unknown e-mail address) with an
attached application to an open position. This, of course, made me wonder,
as I'm self-employed and wasn't looking even close to looking for additional
resources at the time. As it turns out, some poor guy misspelled the domain
name in the "To" address, which was meant for the Norwegian Civil Aviation
Authority (CAA).

One thing's for certain, no real money can be made on registering a
misspelling of a domain name, unless you intend to hijack the user's
computer (which is a bad thing). A user who types the URL expects to end up
at a specific service, not the one you provide. And a user with a clue will
quickly realize his/her mistake and type the correct URL instead of checking
out what you have to offer.

I know there are a lot of clueless users out there, but they're mostly
caught up in reading all the way through the "urgent business proposals" and
"prescription-free drugs" ads they get by e-mail.

Speaking of which, those who want to help me out, go to
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.neonnero.com/nn/spam.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.neonnero.com/nn/spam.shtml</a> and let me know if there are any spam
subjects I haven't covered yet. Thank you.

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Kim André Akerø
- kimandre RemoveThis @kaa.no
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