typosquatting
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A form of cybersquatting that involves the registration of domain names likely to be mistyped by users.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It's a technique, a sort of "typosquatting," that Maly has used repeatedly. A Web site called "Jobonline.cz" was registered last March and two months later Maly bought jobsonline.cz."
- "The decline in traditional, direct cybersquatting was accompanied by a rise in a form of indirect cybersquatting known as typosquatting. A typosquatter attempts to cash in on the traffic generated by high-volume Web sites."