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Google Making Nearly $500m From Typosquatting ITProPortal

19.02.10

Google Inc. may be raking in a big $500 million a year from the companies and individuals who register misleading domain addresses, according to a current study.

The study, conducted by a noted Harvard Professor Ben Edelman, is pivoting around a contentious ability known as “typosquatting”, which involves registering for an improperly spelled unstable of some popular website address.

Presented at the Financial Security and Data Cryptography discussion in Tenerife, Spain, the study estimated that as many as 938,000 web addresses have been typosquatting on the leading 3,264 “.com” websites across the internet, in a family way unsuspecting web users to misspell a web address.

Edelman further claimed that around 57 percent of those typosquatting domains have signed up for Google pay-per-click adverts.

Casually, Google’s terms of service involves preventing trademark violations, which also catalogue typosquatting , and the company says it will bump off violating web addresses if it discovers them or made familiar of them.

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