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This seems like it would be easy to test - register a bit;flipped domain name, set up a simple redirect script to the proper domain name and monitor the hits. A
by dholowiski 15y ago
This seems like it would be easy to test - register a bit;flipped domain name, set up a simple redirect script to the proper domain name and monitor the hits. A good evening or lunch-time project.
- joshu 15y agoYou would need something with high traffic.
- dholowiski 15y agoHow about Google.com or Facebook.COM?
- andfarm 15y agoAs far as I can tell, most or all of the one-bit errors on those are already registered by typosquatters.
- dholowiski 15y agoI hadn't thought of that... I tried flipping the first 7 bits of google and got woogle, ooogle, coogle, eoogle - which are all registered. I don't think it would be that hard to write a bit-flip miner though. It wouldn't surprise me if sites other than the biggest (maybe ycombinator.com, techcrunch.com, makezine.com) have bit flipped versions avilable. I guess it would be more likely with longer domain names too.
- dholowiski 15y agoI built a 'bit flip miner' tonight. As expected, every variation of microsoft.com and google.com are registered, but there are many bit flipped versions of ycombinator.com, wordpress.com, and paypal.com (yikes!) are actually available (among others). The best thing would be if the owner of a very busy domain name set up a redirect as I mentioned before (on a domain that would be hard to be a typo), didn't tell anyone, then compared the traffic with the traffic on the real domain.