http://www.domaininformer.com/news/press/070521CitizenHawk.html
Quote: "CitizenHawk, today reported that there are over 10,000 cybersquatting domains infringing on the trademarks of ten of the top US retail bank web sites".
Oh my Golly!! .. Quick .. call the Coast Guard, the Mayor and the 'Legion of Super-Heroes'. While I don't mean to sound flip about this, it's remarkable that Typo locating services like Citizen Hawk are capable of finding a handful of bank typos while completely overlooking the 200 million+ collective typos of every single website, when people mistakenly enter .xom .cpm or .con and other typos to the right of the dot.
That traffic often flows to Google via Firefox or to Microsoft's LIVE property via their IE browser.
The wholesale inequity of 'browser domain-typo takeovers' like these is as glaring as the pasty posteriors of the snowbirds on my beach, yet Citizenhawk can't seem to find that with both hands. While there's no gentrifying deliberate and malicious typosquatting, the real question I see here is: What flavor do you want your typosquatting... little nefarious operator?.. or Microsoft/Google who get the error search if the name doesn't resolve?
Er, Frank...that photo makes one wonder whether or not your area beaches are topless...
...oh for the days of full piece suits...for (such "well-endowed") men... ;-)
***FS*** Ha!~ True dat.. Double true.
Posted by: Steve M. | May 21, 2007 at 01:48 PM
CitizenHawk is well aware of Microsoft profiting from typos of all sorts...as they mentioned to me on the phone. They probable just don't want to ruffle "those" feathers.
***FS*** I spoke with the CEO of this co last night.. seems like a decent guy.. balanced
Posted by: Andrew | May 23, 2007 at 02:31 PM
Yeah, I liked the CEO as well. He's not one of those "kill all squatters at any price" kinds of guys. He understands there's a middle ground.
***FS*** this is the middleground we discussed:
http://frankschilling.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/when_is_a_typo_.html
Posted by: Andrew | May 24, 2007 at 10:49 AM
Dear Frank,
I own about 600 valuable Mobi Domain Names and am interested in selling them. Enclosed is a brief sample: COUGHS, CPR, CYBERWORKS, ECRUISE, HEADACHES, IMPOTENCE, IMPOTENT, MONEYMARKET, THEBLUES, THEWINDYCITY, ULCER, STILLFREE, TAXLAW, TAXLAWS. TAXRETURN, TAXSHELTER, TAXSHELTERS WEBCITY.
Thank You,
Harry
Posted by: Harry Bloch | June 04, 2007 at 02:44 PM