typosquat

English

Etymology

Back-formation from typosquatting.

Verb

typosquat (third-person singular simple present typosquats, present participle typosquatting, simple past and past participle typosquatted)

  1. To register a domain name likely to be mistyped by users.
    • 2008, Jacqueline D. Lipton, Internet Domain Names, Trademarks and Free Speech‎, page 263:
      Presumably it would be difficult to typosquat on a personalized Facebook username, provided that Facebook is vigilant about responding to complaints by trademark holders under its current online procedure.

Noun

typosquat (plural typosquats)

  1. (uncommon) Such a domain name.
    • 2008, Advanced Seminar on Trademark Law, Practising Law Institute, page 138:
      Trademark owners are registering IDN versions of their marks as domains, but there are many more typosquats made possible in these alternative scripts.

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