typosquatter

plural typosquatters

1. InternetA person who engages in typosquatting.

   The decline in traditional, direct cybersquatting was accompanied by a rise in a form of indirect cybersquatting known as typosquatting. A typosquatter attempts to cash in on the traffic generated by high-volume Web sites.

   2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, 2nd edition, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 59

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   However, little has been written about an interesting and growing subspecies of cybersquatter: the typosquatter. Instead of registering domain names containing the trademarks of others, these folks take a lower-risk course of action. They look around and see which Web sites get the heaviest traffic. Then they register, for themselves, domain names that consist of the likeliest typographical errors that users are may make when seeking to access these sites. Domain names like "amazom.com," "dismey.com" and so on.

   1998 September 11, Robert C. Cumbow, “Day of the Typosquatters”, in The Internet Advertising/Marketing Law Report, archived from the original on 03 Dec 1998