Is this typo typed?

[Jimmy Changa]

This is a question I find myself asking when considering registration of a typo domain name. How does one go about finding out if people actually make a certain typo?

 

[vip-ip]

Ovt?

 

[LeDomain]

Typo

Overture only tells you if a typo is searched in overture not typed in the address bar or toolbar.


This is a great question....and this is true for all type-ins whether typo or not.

All the search engines can tell us is whether a word is searched or not...only Explorer (Microsoft) if legally allowed can capture the true type in information...

Let me know what you guys think...

 

[1rrr1]

OVT is a good indication for a typo, even though it shows the amount of searches.

 

[nick-8318]

Try to type the domain really fast in notepad over and over

edit...cant figure out hwo to delete this post of mine

 

[Jimmy Changa]

That kinda works, but not everyone makes the same typos.

I mean, I find it hard to believe that noone types in "neftliz.com" when trying to get to "netflix.com" :lol: At least that is, according to Overture.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

This is probably why some many typos are registered and dropped the following year. Without access to the internet root, you would have no way of knowing. the only real way is to guess, register, and see if you get traffic. If so, keep it. If not, let it drop.

Intuition and testing is probably the only other way. See what letters or combos you type wrong most often and then translate that to names that use them. Probably the letters typed with the little fingers would be the most likely, as well as those not in the home row on the keyboard. I do often see O and 0 (zero) wrongly selected, too.

 

[Jimmy Changa]

Well, with that in mind, is there anyone with any particularly successful typos that they would care to share about?

I hope that I'm not asking someone to give away thier first-born by asking this question.

 

[Jonathan]

Does pardise count? People were typing that instead of paradise. I don't know if it was a typo or a misspelling. I sold pokerpardise.com for a decent amount.

 

[briman1970]

When people move their little finger to type the period between the domain and the extension, sometimes they don't press it all the way and they get this kind of typo: "www.fotopnet" Firefox will go directly to the .com if you type anything with "www." before it and no extension after it. Internet Explorer does not do this since it's less intuitive. I have 3 domains like this.

I went through the top 500 names at Alexa and all I found were 3 of this kind of typo unreg'd. As a group they get between 100-150 hits per month. This is purely from people using Firefox that type in the names with the "www." prefix. I also have zddnet.com. It gets around 45-60 hits per month. You can imagine how this typo happens.

I think it's better to try and find domains that have existing traffic when they expire. I found qsex.org not long ago and it gets 1800-2200 hits per month. Not bad for reg. fee! I had no idea it had traffic when I reg'd it.

Hope this helps,
Bri

 

[primacomputer]

I think the easiest way to know if a word is commonly mistyped is to google for the typo. If you don't find thousands of instances where someone has made that typo then it's probably not a good one. In addition to this you need to work in the probability of the name being typed in. This pretty much depends on the popularity of the site. You can use overtire, Alexa, linkpop, whatever to determine this. It doesn't really really matter which because unless you see big numbers there is little chance you're typo is going to be worth anything.

Essentially with a typo you are betting on getting typos on a type-in. Lets say a site gets 100k visitors a day. Perhaps 1% of them type it in and perhaps 1% of those make the typo. You need a typo of a pretty popular site if you plan on getting much traffic.

 

[Jimmy Changa]

True, you need a pretty popular site.

But as you know, there are new sites popping up every now and again. Or new ad campaigns that will seriously drive up the # of type-ins such as this TV ad for Esurance.com. Seems to me there aren't any decent typos left for this domain, but this would be a great example of one to get in on just as the ad campaign started.

Turns out Esurancecom.com wasn't regged so I'm trying out my first typo registration on this one.

 

[dweeb]

its pretty much trial and error i guess. you could try surveying people. haha. but that's a really really manual way of going about with things.

 

[Jimmy Changa]

The intention of this thread was to discuss methods of determining good typo domains to register not the actual typos domains.

 

[jeter4982]

I think most typos are just found by guessing. Typically the best typos are when two keys are next to each other, such as a "s" instead of an "a", or an "r" instead of a "t". Also, I think the domains that typically have more typos, are the slang domains. Most people can spell words like NamePros, but then when you get into words like Google, ******, and other words that aren't common in the English language, you get typos. Like others said, if you have a good feeling about it, register it, and see how it does. You can always let it drop...

Tom

 

[briman1970]

True, you need a pretty popular site.

But as you know, there are new sites popping up every now and again. Or new ad campaigns that will seriously drive up the # of type-ins such as this TV ad for Esurance.com. Seems to me there aren't any decent typos left for this domain, but this would be a great example of one to get in on just as the ad campaign started.

Turns out Esurancecom.com wasn't regged so I'm trying out my first typo registration on this one.

Let us know if you get any traffic.

 

[ApeXX]

The best type of typo sites are ones where the letters are semi-close to each other and easy to hit the wrong key, and where the legi site recieves lots of traffic. For example, http://www.gooogle.com

Too bad google already regged it

 

[stscac]

why do you think google registers a lot of its typos?

http://www.googlr.com

-Steve

 

[Jimmy Changa]

You think they like traffic too?

 

[syed]

They dont want their customers/searchers to be redirected to some other engines. So they buy all of the typos. If they dont, some other dudes from Alexa or yahoo or msn would!