{"id":6969,"date":"2021-06-05T12:55:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T10:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/?p=6969"},"modified":"2021-06-05T12:56:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T10:56:06","slug":"typosquatting-a-tech-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/typosquatting-a-tech-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"typosquatting-a tech explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Typosquatting is a form of Internet\u00a0cybersquatting, based on the probability that a certain number of Internet users will mistype the name of a Web site (or actually its\u00a0URL) when surfing the Web.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/contributor\/TechTarget-Contributor\">TechTarget Contributor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typically, a typosquatter will register several possible input errors for a &#8220;brand name&#8221; Web site known for its high traffic, and then monitor to see how many clicks a day each of their &#8220;typo&#8221; domain names receives, and use the information to sell advertising for the sites that receive a high volume of accidental traffic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertising revenue might come from selling ads to the original site&#8217;s competitors or by providing redirect pages to related products or services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Typosquatting is a form of Internet\u00a0cybersquatting, based on the probability that a certain number of Internet users will mistype the name of a Web site (or actually its\u00a0URL) when surfing the Web. By TechTarget Contributor Typically, a typosquatter will register several possible input errors for a &#8220;brand name&#8221; Web site known for its high traffic, and then monitor to see<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/typosquatting-a-tech-explanation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,35,4,54,3,9,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices-for-data-center-operations","category-data-center-facilities","category-datacenter-news","category-hackers-and-cybercrime-prevention","category-industry-news-and-expert-advise","category-tech-definitions","category-technical-explanations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6970,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions\/6970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}