Is there a term for websites which attempt to capitalize on people who mistype a real website? For example, you mean to go to google.com but type in ggogle.com (or something like that) and find yourself at a porn pop-up factory? Or another search engine?
Typosquatting.
Thanks! I knew there had to be a term for it.
I just noticed that I have a typo in my subject about misspelled hostnames. Subliminal suggestion maybe.
That’s scary about VeriSign. I wonder how they can get away with that. What if I have my own application where I’m trying to verify the hostname typed in by a user and I do a DNS lookup. Would I get their Site Finder IP address? I might be using the hostname for something completely different than HTTP so a redirection like that would not be transparent to the user.