Typosquatting

So I’m writing this paper on typosquatting and the .eu TLD (more soon) and I wondered whether I could find any .com examples. I tried “sonu.com”, which seemed quite obvious to me as the u-key is right next to the y on my keyboard. I more or less expected to be redirected to sony.com. Guess I was wrong, a pay-per-click portal it is.

This sort of makes me wonder whether companies actually think these things through. Tell you one thing, if I held a trademark such as Sony I would make sure to register/obtain about every similar domain in a glimpse, at least within the popular TLDs.

On a completely irrelevant sidenote, apparently pony.com does not host lovable mini-horses.

~ by kristofn on March 19, 2007.