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>Interestingly, the typo space on major sites is actually very sparsely registered (2% at edit distance 1), meaning that typosquatting may actually be underexpl
by ricardo81 10mo ago
>Interestingly, the typo space on major sites is actually very sparsely registered (2% at edit distance 1), meaning that typosquatting may actually be underexploited.
Anecdotally, the autosuggestions and improved browsing history recommendations may mean this is way less lucrative than it used to be.
Also, anyone doing search like behaviour in their address bar is far more likely to see a knowledge panel style reply for prominent websites vs the 10 blue link format of historical search engine results, which may have included the nefarious domains.
I'd leap to say that because of this, users find their intended domain by using natural language far more than they used to.
- Loughla 10mo agoI would argue that it is 100% searching in the address bar. Mobile has trained people to do that, and search results are usually solid enough to take you to the right place.
- ricardo81 10mo agoYeah, I'd lean towards a high % also- it would take some time to prove it. Also, homograph attacks are likely much less of a thing for the above reasons.
- xp84 10mo agoMobile? Haven’t all desktop browsers switched to having the address bar do search unless you type a fully qualified domain, since Chrome came out c. 2009? Before that there were 2 fields at the top of browser windows, but Firefox and Safari ditched those pretty quickly after Chrome.