Cyber Squatting
Cyber squatting
Divyasreek.M
IInd CSE
CIET, Coimbatore
Email:somethingforme93@gmail.com
Abstract
Cyber-squatting is fast becoming a threat to the future viability of Internet commerce. Fraudulent abuse of domain name registration is at the core of cyber squatting. By registering domain names similar to famous brands, cyber squatters lure consumers into purchasing counterfeit products, cause them to reveal their personally identifiable information, and expose themselves to spyware. Typo squatting is registering domain names that are typographical mistakes on popular and common domains. In this paper I suggest tools and ways for internet users to escape from entering into fake WebPages due to spelling errors.
Introduction
Typo squatting is the purchase of a misspelled version of a popular domain
name for the purpose of attracting visitors who make typographical errors when entering web addresses. This practice is a form of cyber squatting. Cybersquatters purchase domain names with the goal of trading on the popularity and fame of a trademark or company and in some cases have even managed to snap up domain names before a parent company has a chance to buy them.
In the case of typosquatting, people take advantage of the fact that there are numerous potential misspellings of a domain that can crop up when people are typing in a hurry. If millions of people are visiting a website and even a small fraction make mistakes when they manually enter domain names, a typosquatter can profit. Typosquatters can buy domains with transposed letters, missing letters, or extra letters, like wiesgeek.com, wisgek.com, or wisege4ek.com.
There are a number of things that a typosquatter can do with a domain. One option is to simply use the site as a redirect to the original domain, a trick used by some companies that buy some common misspellings of their domain names to cover their bases. Another option is to turn the domain into a link or ad farm, hoping that
Divyasreek.M
IInd CSE
CIET, Coimbatore
Email:somethingforme93@gmail.com
Abstract
Cyber-squatting is fast becoming a threat to the future viability of Internet commerce. Fraudulent abuse of domain name registration is at the core of cyber squatting. By registering domain names similar to famous brands, cyber squatters lure consumers into purchasing counterfeit products, cause them to reveal their personally identifiable information, and expose themselves to spyware. Typo squatting is registering domain names that are typographical mistakes on popular and common domains. In this paper I suggest tools and ways for internet users to escape from entering into fake WebPages due to spelling errors.
Introduction
Typo squatting is the purchase of a misspelled version of a popular domain
name for the purpose of attracting visitors who make typographical errors when entering web addresses. This practice is a form of cyber squatting. Cybersquatters purchase domain names with the goal of trading on the popularity and fame of a trademark or company and in some cases have even managed to snap up domain names before a parent company has a chance to buy them.
In the case of typosquatting, people take advantage of the fact that there are numerous potential misspellings of a domain that can crop up when people are typing in a hurry. If millions of people are visiting a website and even a small fraction make mistakes when they manually enter domain names, a typosquatter can profit. Typosquatters can buy domains with transposed letters, missing letters, or extra letters, like wiesgeek.com, wisgek.com, or wisege4ek.com.
There are a number of things that a typosquatter can do with a domain. One option is to simply use the site as a redirect to the original domain, a trick used by some companies that buy some common misspellings of their domain names to cover their bases. Another option is to turn the domain into a link or ad farm, hoping that