Comments on: What are the odds you'll land on a typo-squatting site?

Pretty high, according to a new report from McAfee. To be exact, you have a 1-in-14 chance of doing so when entering the URL of a popular Web site.

[nitpicky]

grammar checking tool

anyone else find writing with grammar/spelling mistakes credible?

[Stating]

Raise The Domain Registration Fee

This is what happens when you can register a domain for only $3. If the fee were or $100 or more then it would reduce the number of cyber squatters.

[`WarpKat]

I would take that one step further

Regulate the registrars so that they are REQUIRED to check (BY HUMAN BEING) the domain being registered and then determine if it's meant to be a squat site. This would justify raising the fee to at LEAST $75 per domain per year and decrease the fee after the first two years to $10 a year.

Unfortunately, WIPO makes it difficult to do just that since they have an 'arbitration process' that one has to go through to get something like this taken care of - BUT it costs an arm, leg and a soul just to get it started - not very consumer friendly.

[editor23--2008]

sad trend

It was sad that typosquatting is seen even for kiddy sites like http://www.americangirl.com and http://www.indianchild.com/.