Typos

[Coastalguy]

What causes people to type in the wrong spelling of a domain name?

Is it because they can't spell or is it because they hit the wrong letter on their keyboard?

ST

 

[Spawn]

I type very very very fast and often it happens i get 1 or 2 letters wrong :P

 

[Chris.]

both i do it all the time.

 

[SimpleDomaining]

agree. both.

 

[Dotmainer]

or they forget to hit letter on keyboard -> all wwwdomain.com typos

or they hit one more letter than its needed
(dont have example for that one)

 

[Keynes]

Agreed, in both cases a neuron misfires: either the mind is wrong, or it fails to communicate to the fingers. In either case, we have "brain failure traffic arbitrage"

 

[Devil_Dog]

Don't forget drunken web surfing.

 

[Coastalguy]

Don't forget drunken web surfing.

Good point!

Burp,
ST

 

[jack1]

I type very very very fast and often it happens i get 1 or 2 letters wrong :P

Me too...

drunken web surfing.

...Me too :lol:

 

[Coastalguy]

Some of my common typos:

doamin (domain)
teh (the)

Going a bit too fast IMO.

ST

 

[Finer - Tommy]

A little bit of both.. I do it all the time

 

[Domainate.com]

What causes people to type in the wrong spelling of a domain name?

Is it because they can't spell or is it because they hit the wrong letter on their keyboard?

ST

In today's sped-up world, people are always in a hurry to do stuff. Given how much people use the computer nowadays, I figure most people type at a fairly decent speed (even older people here at my company that I figure would be slower typists do about 40-50 WPM). I myself type about 80-90 WPM when I'm really flying, and at that rate it's pretty easy to place a finger on the wrong key or too soon or whatever. I think my most notorious typo is than kyou...if I got a nickel for every time I've done that at the end of an email...

Oh yea, and a lot of people suck at spelling too.

 

[Dave_Z]

Alien Hand Syndrome, maybe?

 

[Ronald Regging]

I suffer from OCM. Obsessive compulsive multi-tasking... I usually have 4-9 tabs open at any given time and I flip back and forth so fast I often completely forget what I'm doing and where I am...

That and I also just type .ocm a lot more than .com

 

[htmlindex]

What causes people to type in the wrong spelling of a domain name?

Is it because they can't spell or is it because they hit the wrong letter on their keyboard?

ST

It's a combination of both actually

 

[Kenny]

You can put me in that speling katagory, and also the fact my
KB has a drinking problem and often staggerz while I'm typing.

Cy

 

[-REECE-]

Being a talented 80 WPM (about 70 after error corrections) "Hunt & Pecker", errors are an unfortunate occurence

Granted I'm typing so fast and only using 2 fingers, I often will press the key immediately adjacent to the key I intend to press, most often the one just to the right of it.

Sometimes, if I'm watching the news, listening to the radio, etc and I hear about something interesting, say, a new health discovery, I'll try and Google it up, or punch up the corresponding .com, knowing that I usually find good content there. Sometimes, even an educated person can't figure out how to properly spell a new buzz word (could you spell pomegranate 10 years ago?) :zzz:

 

[djmadfx]

I suffer from OCM. Obsessive compulsive multi-tasking... I usually have 4-9 tabs open at any given time and I flip back and forth so fast I often completely forget what I'm doing and where I am...

That and I also just type .ocm a lot more than .com

Same exact thing happens to me. I multi-task too much and typing .ocm happens more than it should. lol...

As the other people said, it's usually typing fast.