information Making a fortune squatting domains on the Dark Web?

equity78 · Mar 22, 2019

Typosquatting on corporate names is not the only squatting game in town. TheNextWeb has a story about someone claiming to have made $760,000 in BTC by squatting on websites that reside on the Tor network. From the article: A scammer is claiming to have made 200 BTC ($760,000) through ‘typosquatting’ criminal dark web sites on the Tor network, over the past four years. The scammer says 800 … [Read more...]

Willox Perez · Mar 22, 2019

When it comes to this type of way of making money I just feel even thought it may be profitable it really won't last. Not only that but you have to feel some sort of guilt knowing what you are doing is wrong. I am pretty sure there are success stories of drug dealers and thieves but that doesn't make it right. Best to focus on an ethical way of doing business even if it takes longer to hit those high financial numbers.

- Will

Soofi · Mar 22, 2019

Illegal ways of making money don’t last long!!

Kate · Mar 22, 2019

To begin with, there are not many companies that maintain a Tor site. And the .onion addresses can only reached by Tor users or using a Tor2web proxy. If you want to be sure about the address you need to refer to the official (.com) site, then bookmark it (nobody types in .onion addresses anyway).
example: https://www.facebook.com/facebookcorewwwi/
Claims from scammers are not credible.

barman · Mar 22, 2019

I am not following how this works or how they're making money.

dande · Mar 22, 2019

qwartet · Mar 22, 2019

barman said:
I am not following how this works or how they're making money.

I might be wrong, but it seems like the idea is pretty simple. So most of the dark web addresses look something like that: http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/ So there's lots of room for typos. So these guys created a bunch of sites mocking existing .onion websites with misspellings in mind while attaching their bitcoin wallets to them, I think they claim they've made around 800 of such websites. So people trying to buy stuff on the dark web and not being careful with what they type lost some money.

dande · Mar 22, 2019

I don't like quoting criminals as an example of success

barman · Mar 22, 2019

qwartet said:
I might be wrong, but it seems like the idea is pretty simple. So most of the dark web addresses look something like that: http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/ So there's lots of room for typos. So these guys created a bunch of sites mocking existing .onion websites with misspellings in mind while attaching their bitcoin wallets to them, I think they claim they've made around 800 of such websites. So people trying to buy stuff on the dark web and not being careful with what they type lost some money.

Thanks for the insight... I don't think people are hand-typing these addresses though for typos. Similar to crypto address, they seem to be hashes, so people would CTRL+C+V these if they have any brains instead of typing them out.

qwartet · Mar 22, 2019

barman said:
Thanks for the insight... I don't think people are hand-typing these addresses though for typos. Similar to crypto address, they seem to be hashes, so people would CTRL+C+V these if they have any brains instead of typing them out.

Very good point. Well, that's only typosquatting I can imagine that brings bitcoins. As of now, it is only clear that these websites do exist, but whether they brought any profit to the owner remains very questionable.

wwwweb · Mar 22, 2019

There is a Chinese party who registers every TM registered at the US TM office on the day it is released thru @Dynadot , and the lists them for sale @Undeveloped for $988, there is thousands of TM Infringments in this account, I would hope these two parties suspend this person.

1 example is YETIURINE.com among thousands of others, maybe tens of thousands.

OmarVG · Mar 22, 2019

equity78 said:
($760,000)

AHAHAHAHAHA! that money is NOT a fortune like you said!! and during long 4 years just that money?? LOL

please dont celebrate a Scammer ´´victory´´ on the dark web fake profits! thats fake dark BS!

EbookLover · Mar 25, 2019

OmarVG said:
AHAHAHAHAHA! that money is NOT a fortune like you said!! and during long 4 years just that money?? LOL

$760,000 USD / 4yrs = $190,000 USD/yr

Most people around the world are lucky if they make $40,000 USD/year working minimum 40 hrs per week, and that includes the USA.

In 2015, it was reported that the US median HOUSEHOLD income was $56,516. That's PER HOUSEHOLD, not per person.

$190,000 USD/yr is, IN FACT, "a fortune" for most people.

EbookLover · Mar 25, 2019

This is the underground, folks. Nothing new or shocking here. It's the deep web and it's run by the Double Triangle Mafia. This guy just found a way to get his cut of their action. I would not doubt if he is dead soon.

Besides, it's bogus news. The article made just seems as though this guy is squatting on legit business. In fact, he was squatting on sites that probably charged for illegal content.

alcy · Apr 9, 2019

Infinity said:
Guy with 500 typo domains monetizes traffic and drops on Bitcoin

We here are Digital Assets

Offline ColdStorage =BarterTrade

@ColdStorageBank born finally

Infinity said:
Here is one of the links

https://insidebitcoins.com/news/a-b...his-newfound-wealth-from-typosquatting/217245

so they call him a scammer cause he does domain squatting/typo squatting... or because he did all this on the darkweb?

as far as I know domainers are not scammers

looks to me like another domainer genius expert writing articles about domainers

NYJimbo · Apr 9, 2019

Infinity said:
We here are Digital Assets

Offline ColdStorage =BarterTrade

@ColdStorageBank born finally

Say what ?

Furquan · Apr 10, 2019

I own the domain name "Fedxo" it's got lots of traffic & already made $35+ counting. I would try selling it on TOR.

I don't know how its look now but it's was a very scary place when I was in high school

dande · Apr 10, 2019

This isn't a domainer. This is a scammer who uses typo domains to trick web users to fake website to try and steal their credit card info.

satsdifference.com · Apr 10, 2019

I am coldstoragetrading.com selling cold storage trading accounts insured/licensed by state?

satsdifference.com · Apr 10, 2019

I have 45+ typo domains myself

NYJimbo · Apr 10, 2019

Infinity said:
I am coldstoragetrading.com selling cold storage trading accounts insured/licensed by state?

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