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**greggish** · 02-12-2005, 02:57 PM

Article: http://slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2113397&

and discussion about it on slashdot http://slashdot.org/articles/05/02/1...?tid=95&tid=98

An interesting read about typos.

"Various studies have estimated that 10 percent to 20 percent of all hand-entered URLs are mistyped, adding up to at least 20 million wrong numbers per day."

**FreddyS** · 02-16-2005, 02:41 AM

10-20% is a lot.
But I am sure that they are right. I see it in my case. Long or complicated Domains that I visit often, I mistype from time to time. The Names that you type often, you always type very quick, so mistyper come automatically.

CU

Freddy

Dr. Domaining · 02-23-2005, 01:48 AM

Thank you for posting the article. I wonder what the contents of the all new WhiteHouse.com will be. Does anybody know?

**Acro** · 02-23-2005, 02:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MasterOfTheDomain

Thank you for posting the article. I wonder what the contents of the all new WhiteHouse.com will be. Does anybody know?

Hopefully better than the contents of WhiteHouse.gov :-D

**FreddyS** · 02-23-2005, 02:25 AM

Bush is today in Germany. Perhaps buying back the whitehouse.de? Owned by a constructionfirm.

**Mattius** · 02-23-2005, 04:18 AM

I dont see a problem with registering a mistype and then using a parking service like sedo to redirect that traffic to the proper site via a nice 0.03 click off course...

Damn they wanna take away all the fun. Ya if i type in disney.com i dont want disbey.com, say a hypothetical porn master to come up with his/her portfolio...but other than those obvious limitations i dont see a problem with the situation i wrote above...off course it suits me to believe this

**greggish** · 02-23-2005, 12:23 PM

Slashdot now has an update to this article posted, "100,000 Domains Sold for $164 Million"

http://slashdot.org/articles/05/02/2...9.shtml?tid=98

"Here's a news item that puts some hard data on the domain typo millionaires post from a couple weeks back. Marchex Inc. just paid $164 million to buy Name Development Ltd., an obscure company that displays pay-per-click keyword ads on 100,000 domains. It's not a stock swap, either, as $155 million of that was in cash. The seller reportedly built the portfolio by scarfing up expiring domains (including hardware-update.com, previously owned by Microsoft and linked from within the Windows 2000 OS) and replacing the content with pay-per-click ads."

**ParkQuick.com** · 02-23-2005, 07:09 PM

Typing quickly I see...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freddy@EuroDNS

The Names that you type often, you always type very quick, so mistyper come automatically.