typosquat

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verb

To register a domain name likely to be mistyped by users.

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Meanings

verbtyposquat (third-person singular simple present typosquats, present participle typosquatting, simple past and past participle typosquatted)

present singular third person typosquats · participle present typosquatting · participle past typosquatted · past typosquatted

  1. To register a domain name likely to be mistyped by users.

    Presumably it would be difficult to typosquat on a personalized Facebook username, provided that Facebook is vigilant about responding to complaints by trademark holders under its current online procedure.

    2008, Jacqueline D. Lipton, Internet Domain Names, Trademarks and Free Speech, page 263
nountyposquat (plural typosquats)

plural typosquats

  1. uncommonSuch a domain name.

    Trademark owners are registering IDN versions of their marks as domains, but there are many more typosquats made possible in these alternative scripts.

    2008, Advanced Seminar on Trademark Law, Practising Law Institute, page 138

Origin

Back-formation from typosquatting.

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Translations

German Tippfehlerdomain
  • Tippfehlerdomaintypo-based domain name
Cite this entry
APA

typosquat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/typosquat

MLA

“typosquat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/typosquat. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “typosquat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/typosquat.

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