Typosquatting

Typosquatting is the practice of registering domains that exploit common typing mistakes, like `gogle.com`, `amazno.com`, or `paypa1.com` (with a digit 1 in place of an 'l'). The squatter monetises the captured traffic with ads, parking pages, or outright phishing pages that mimic the real brand. The same technique applied to nameservers (typosquatted NS hostnames) is a known attack vector that dnschkr has researched at scale. Defences for brand owners include defensive registrations of likely typos, trademark enforcement via UDRP, and monitoring newly registered domains for lookalike patterns.