typosquat
English
Etymology
Back-formation from typosquatting.
Verb
typosquat (third-person singular simple present typosquats, present participle typosquatting, simple past and past participle typosquatted)
- To register a domain name likely to be mistyped by users.
- 2008, Jacqueline D. Lipton, Internet Domain Names, Trademarks and Free Speech, p. 263:
- Presumably it would be difficult to typosquat on a personalized Facebook username, provided that Facebook is vigilant about responding to complaints by trademark holders under its current online procedure.
- 2008, Jacqueline D. Lipton, Internet Domain Names, Trademarks and Free Speech, p. 263: