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According to today's Wall Street Journal, Verisign has another trick up it's sleeve. The report says they plan to capture misstyped .com and .net internet addresses (so called trash traffic) for their own use, possibly to an ad based search engine or web sites it chooses or sells the traffic to. The plan would be to alter the DNS so that standard error screens are not shown, but non-existent domain traffic goes where they want it to EVEN WHEN A DOMAIN DOESN'T EXIST.

It seems to me this doesn't stop mistyped real and registere domains from being sold to capture that traffice, but it would seemingly put them in the position of "pseudo typo squatting" by using mistypes for their own benefit which may not be to the benefit of trademark owners.

The report also indiates Neustar has already done testing along this line sending users to LookSmart via a company called paxfire (a traffic broker), and that aol already captures mistypes in their version of browsers to either offer suggestions or capture the traffic. Many will remember when this happened several months ago confusing lots of users.

This seems to be another blurring domain names so that you may not even know when you've typed a bad address at some point. On the other hand it may be a ploy to get companies to purchase all possible mis-types who now don't care if an error message comes up, but may if the traffic was actually redirected to competitiors.

They recently tried to trump the domain drop catchers with the WLS, now it looks like they'll try to trump the brower makers from capturing mistypes.
 
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Originally posted by Domainaholic
Even MicroSoft did not stoop that low.

Not quite true... apparently they do capture some non-domain hits in some browser versions where MSN is the default search engine and send them to MSN. I have google as default, so it doesn't do it on mine. However, with google, I can enter a word in the address bar (without the http:)and get a google suggestion search page

I was surprised with the previous underpinnings of RealNames that was probably built into browsers that MS didn't capitalize on that by sending those old keyword names to their own search engine.
 

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Would a class action lawsuit by all trademark and servicemark owners against Verisign for typosquatting be an appropiate response?

As for members of the class:

The holders of registered and common law trademarks and servicemarks worldwide.

Any hungry lawyers out there?
 

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i think its time for me to develop versislime.com
 

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I remember when Neustar did this with .biz a few months ago; for a few days, mistyped .biz domains went to various things, changing several times over the course of the "experiment". At one point, they even got redirected to stuff like gambling sites.
 

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Is this why Yahoo bought Inktomi and Overture?

They are supplying the search results. 20 million hits a day will be redirected to that page.
 

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Verisign has already started it.

Check out www.all-xxxporn.com for instance to see yerself.

Seems at the moment they only redirect names that are either in redemption, pendingdelete or have expired.I tested some names that never have been regged and they do not resolve anywhere.
 

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just tried mis-spell of ciqala.com and it went to their ppc engine

grrrrr
 

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Well - it should be possible just to block the IP they're running sitefinder on.

Just to make sure I regged stopsitefinder.com and blocksitefinder.com :eek:k:
 

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Originally posted by diederik
Just to make sure I regged stopsitefinder.com and blocksitefinder.com :eek:k:

By the way : Anyone interested in setting up these domains, mail me at home[at]diederik.biz or PM me.
 
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