Misspelled, parked at sponsoring domains - Evil!

[Sparky2002b]

Have you ever gone to type in a website, like google or something, mispelled it, and come to some asshole's page parked at sedo/goldkey/domainsponsor or whatever?

Don't you hate that? >_>

 

[Stephen]

I have done this several times...

It is irratating, but I can just hit the back key, and type in the correct address.

It really doesn't bother me that much.

Stephen

 

[Australia]

i hate it too,

but they do get alot of traffic, like dawnload.com downlaod.com Donwload.com sold for $68,000 each! porker a poker miss spelling sold for $155,000 etc based on the traffic they get i believe.

 

[OK]

Oh wow, that scared me for a sec. I thought he was either a hypocrit or had a split personality. I saw that the avatar was the same and assumed that it was the same person contradicting himself.

BOT It doesn't bother me at all, and I blame myself for typing in the wrong thing while by the way you typed, looks like you blame the person who registered the misspelled word.

 

[sufi]

It doesn't irritate me much becoz I'm a fan of typo names myself :p

 

[Momo]

They don't bother me that much, oftentimes I realize my mistake before the page loads anyway.

Typo names make a lot of revenue, though I've never invested in them myself.

 

[robertjr]

Have you ever gone to type in a website, like google or something, mispelled it, and come to some asshole's page parked at sedo/goldkey/domainsponsor or whatever?

Don't you hate that? >_>

What would you suggest they do with it?
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BTW- This "Ahole" does quite well with them and I'm betting I'm not alone, at least not in this forum.

 

[yeppers]

Have you ever gone to type in a website, like google or something, mispelled it, and come to some asshole's page parked at sedo/goldkey/domainsponsor or whatever?

Don't you hate that? >_>

Thousands of domains are bought specifically for that purpose. I've got my useless names parked at sedo, never ever ever ever ever had a click yet lol, so not worth much for me.
What are ya doin at a domain forum if you hate that .
They dont annoy me too much, at least it doesnt redirect to some porn site or something ridiculous. And also, they teach us a lesson about writing too fast :P
Just my opinion :D

 

[Michelle]

I have some typo's parked at sedo and earn some rather nice from annoyed people like you :hehe:

 

[Ixix]

i just hate the ones w/popups

sedo does't bother me cuz it's fast to load, thus fast to backtrack!

:hehe:

 

[slaughterbeck]

I have some typo's parked at sedo and earn some rather nice from annoyed people like you :hehe:

Now that’s funny.

 

[JMJ]

Atleast you didn't find a picture of some naked fat guy sitting on the comode. But then again it might be your thing.

 

[tajimd]

its iritating some times..but before anything happens .. i just hit back key and type in the name correctly..there;s no other option

 

[tetrapak]

its not really irritating, i realize i was stupid enough to make an easy mistake in typing, so most of the times i give a click to the owner -like saying well done, you bought the right typo and tricked me

 

[sjaguar13]

I own hundreds of typo domains that are all parked. You might get annoyed by going to my parked pages, but since most of them are bank typos, be thankful I don't throw up a fake login page and steal your info!...I'd never do that. The parked pages pay me enough legally where I don't have to resort to scamming people.

 

[.Mike]

Have you ever gone to type in a website, like google or something, mispelled it, and come to some asshole's page parked at sedo/goldkey/domainsponsor or whatever?

Don't you hate that? >_>

Guess that makes me an Asshole and evil too then - Personally speaking though I learnt how to spell without using the trial and error method so I don't tend to go to typo sites When I do end up at a parked page, in general the ad content is applicable to my original request anyway and 7/10 times I'll click through - everybody is happy!

Remember you are on a domain / website development forum, by referring to people who own typo's as assholes you are actually addressing a relatively high percentage of the members here.

What would you rather we do, put a page up that said “No idiot, you spelt it wrong!” ?? _\|/_ :gl:

 

[AHA7]

Typo domains might also be sold for nice prices.
For example, aljazzera.net is a typo for aljazeera.net and was sold for $3,750 USD on Afternic.

 

[wow!]

I hate it... but would love it if you'll click on it...
MySface.com
bitorent.biz

 

[scrsteven]

I don't mind at all when I'm the guilty one for typing the wrong address, unless it's some dirty site or has lots of pop-ups.

 

[gazzip]

I don't mind it either, it's got to be better than a blank page !
I only own 1 typo poker domain but it brings in about 1/2 of my monthly click revenue so I'm not complaining

I can see why people have hundreds of them.