typosquatting Last modified: Monday, August 02, 2004
(tī´pō-skwot´´ting) slang. Purchasing a domain name that is a variation on a popular domain name with the expectation that the site will get traffic off of the original sight because of a user's misspelling of the name. For example, registering the domain names webapedia.com or yahooo.com in the hopes that someone making a typo will get to that site unexpectedly. Also see cybersquatting.
•E-mail this definition to a colleague• For internet.com pages about typosquatting . Also check out the following links!	Ethics World Wide Web cybersquatting domain name Give Us Your Feedback