Whats the motivation for registering a domain name that is similar to a famous trademark but misspelled?
They would obviously want to monetize that. The misspelling part of it comes from the natural tendency to make a common typographical error. This is a practice that is very frowned upon by professionals in the business. Someone might transpose the last two letters of the word Microsoft. There could be any number of misspellings. How much money can you make from using typos as domain names? It would very widely depending on the name. With a well-known trademark like a Microsoft, where so many people are trying to get on a given day, a good typo — meaning one that a lot of people would make the error of typing in — could generate thousands of dollars a month. There could be one on a lesser-known brand that has less traffic that maybe makes $10 a month, but some of these guys might hold tens of thousands of domains. If it costs them $10 a year to register a domain, and if they make $5 or $10 a month multiplied across thousands of domains, it becomes a significant amount of money. But do
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