The Typo Millionaires

[greggish]

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

and discussion about it on slashdot http://slashdot.org/articles/05/02/12/142230.shtml?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]

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]

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

 

[Theo]

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]

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

 

[Mattius]

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]

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

http://slashdot.org/articles/05/02/23/1335249.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]

Typing quickly I see...

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