Microsoft Ships 'URL Tracer' to Hunt Down Typo-Squatters

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Intresting Article..

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This has serious implications for PPC, and domainers.
The software only scratches the surface of what can be done to block web-spam. Even with the limited functionality of this software think of how many names would be instantly rendered worthless when 90% of the world can no longer be easily duped into visiting them?
 
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well it's about time ms becomes one of the police now, it's been bothering to me as well, as one of my domains that expired became a porn site within 24 hours. :(
 
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Very interesting article.
 
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where would the boundary be set?

where would the legal boundary be? what if a typo is a legitimate typo of two things. for example i own a typo that is the name of a major site as well as a generic typo. i guess only time will tell.
 
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I've written software that takes this concept much further. As the user browses, the software runs checks on a name before requesting each page. If the name servers are sedo, goldkey, etc. the user receives page warning them they are about to visit a parked page and offers them the option to click through to it or select from a number of links to correctly spelled sites. It also checks the whois information and gives a similar warning if the site is owned by a known spammer.
If everything is ok here it requests the page. It checks for redirects to sites owned by someone else, ie if you redirect to sedo instead of using their name servers you get the same message. It looks into the code of the page to see if it's framing anything from the parking or known spammer database and warns if it is. It checks the the content of the page and warns if there are lots of ads and not much content. It also has the option of removing banner and text ads from all the major PPC companies.

I've been running this software for years and everyone in the office loves it. It's only a matter of time before someone like Microsoft develops the same thing and uses their long reach to get it installed on 90% of the machines in the world. And when that happens the domain world is going to change.
 
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