# Are you aware of this annoying website **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 5, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872 "2007-06-05T17:59:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cryptoderk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cryptoderk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptoderk)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872/1 "2007-06-05T17:59:36Z")
Someone is cybersquatting at the typo [striaghtdope.com](http://striaghtdope.com). As I often make that typo, it’s pretty annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872/2 "2007-06-05T18:48:38Z")
I don’t want to check it again but I once went to starightdope . com and it is a banner ad pop up site. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872/3 "2007-06-05T19:33:41Z")
Actually, according to a Whois search at the domain’s current registrar, the current registrant’s record expires this coming December. The Reader should try and snag it for cheap when it expires and redirect it here. Domain names literally only cost a few bucks a year. Google does this. They registered [gogle.com](http://gogle.com), [gooogle.com](http://gooogle.com), [googel.com](http://googel.com) and several others. They all point to the Google home page. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872/4 "2007-06-05T19:39:03Z")
Actually, the company that owns [striaghtdope.com](http://striaghtdope.com) is the same one mentioned in the beginning of [this article](http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/944682/cashing_in_on_human_error_your_fingers_have_fumbled_and/index.html?source=r_technology), who is being sued by Exxon for a similar domain name. If Exxon wins, it might be easier for the Reader to sieze [striaghtdope.com](http://striaghtdope.com) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872/5 "2007-06-05T19:43:36Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] I don’t want to check it again but I once went to starightdope . com and it is a banner ad pop up site. [/QUOTE] That address is not currently active. Might still be registered, but no page comes up. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872/6 "2007-06-05T19:51:47Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] That address is not currently active. Might still be registered, but no page comes up. [/QUOTE] Not currently registered ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872/7 "2007-06-05T21:39:13Z")
It was a couple of years ago that I stumbled into it. I remember starting a thread about it. I don’t know if the reader did anything about it or if it died a natural death. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872/8 "2007-06-05T22:25:34Z")
Besides the point, but here’s a champion cybersquatter (Kevin Ham, a former physician in Vancouver, BC, Canada) who makes millions of dollars from the “.cm” instead of “.com” typo (.cm is the country domain for Cameroon): [The man who owns the Internet](http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/index.htm?postversion=2007052205) ([money.cnn.com](http://money.cnn.com)) > [@](#): > > Try it with almost any name you can think of – Beer.cm, Newyorktimes.cm, even Anyname.cm – and you’ll land on a page called [Agoga.com](http://Agoga.com) … [Kevin] Ham landed connections to the Cameroon government and flew in his people to reroute the traffic. And if he gets his way, Colombia (.co), Oman (.om), Niger (.ne), and Ethiopia (.et) will be his as well. ETA - straightdope.cm, of course, ends up at [agoga.com](http://agoga.com) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872/9 "2007-06-05T23:08:27Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] sieze [striaghtdope.com](http://striaghtdope.com) [/QUOTE] Reading that makes my brain hurt. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872/10 "2007-06-05T23:48:12Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Reading that makes my brain hurt. [/QUOTE] AEr yuo maikng fnu fo teh wya I spel? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-aware-of-this-annoying-website/406872/11 "2007-06-06T00:53:37Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] AEr yuo maikng fnu fo teh wya I spel? [/QUOTE] Yes. Yes I am. 😛