Typosquatting — what happens when you mistype a website

Typosquatting is a perfect use case because when people look at URLs and internalize their own misspellings, they are more likely to confuse the website the user visits in the email with the website they associate with the brand.

Typosquatting, or URLs hijacking, is a form of cybersquatting aimed at people who misenter web page addresses in their web browser URL fields. Compared to the typosquatting practice, cybersquatting involves the purchase of domain names to make money on the popularity or reputation of a particular brand or company. The aim is to get users to visit malicious websites with URLs, which often contain spelling mistakes from legitimate websites. Attackers register URLs with one-character deviations from popular websites, and if a user misspells a domain or enters it into his browser, they are taken to a fraudulent site.

Typosquatting is the use of modified or misspelled domain names to entice users to visit fraudulent websites. This is a form of cybersquatting targeting users who misspell URLs while typing the word “typo” in their web address lines. The purpose of the practice is to register and search for website URLs that are similar to real URLs of…