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2. Typosquatting - Wikipedia

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   Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, a sting site, a cousin domain, or a fake URL, is a form of cybersquatting, and possibly brandjacking which relies on mistakes such as typos made by Internet users when inputting a website address into a web browser. A user accidentally entering an incorrect website address may be led to any URL ...

3. Reverse domain hijacking - Wikipedia

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   Reverse domain name hijacking (also known as reverse cybersquatting or commonly abbreviated as 'RDNH'), occurs where a rightful trademark owner attempts to secure a domain name by making cybersquatting claims against a domain name’s "cybersquatter" owner. [1] This often intimidates domain name owners into transferring ownership of their ...

4. Domain hijacking - Wikipedia

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   Domain hijacking is analogous with theft, in that the original owner is deprived of the benefits of the domain, but theft traditionally relates to concrete goods such as jewelry and electronics, whereas domain name ownership is stored only in the digital state of the domain name registry, a network of computers.

5. Domain name speculation - Wikipedia

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   Domain name speculation, popular as domain investing, domain flipping or domaining in professional jargon, [1] is the practice of identifying and registering or acquiring generic Internet domain names as an investment with the intent of selling them later for a profit.

6. Exclusive: DHS warns of fake election websites potentially ...

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   The FBI has identified suspicious websites that look like official election websites but are not legitimate and could be used to interfere with the 2020 vote, according to a Department of Homeland ...

7. Cybersquatting - Wikipedia

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   Some countries have specific laws against cybersquatting beyond the normal rules of trademark law. For example, according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.

8. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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   The Washington Post submitted a complaint against Coler's registration of the site with GoDaddy under the UDRP, and in 2015, an arbitral panel ruled that Coler's registration of the domain name was a form of bad-faith cybersquatting (specifically, typosquatting), "through a website that competes with Complainant through the use of fake news ...

9. Doppelganger domain - Wikipedia

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   A doppelganger domain is a domain that is spelled identically to a legitimate fully qualified domain name (FQDN) but missing the dot between host/subdomain and domain, to be used for malicious purposes. Typosquatting's traditional attack vector is through the web to distribute malware or harvest credentials.