Typosquatting

Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, a sting site, a cousin domain or a fake URL, is a form of cybersquatting that relies on the typing mistakes internet users make when entering a website address into a browser, leading a user who mistypes an address to a URL they did not intend to visit, including one owned by a typosquatter. The typosquatter's URL usually resembles the address of the legitimate site it targets, through a misspelling or foreign-language spelling, a common typographical error, a pluralized version of a singular domain, a different top-level domain such as .com in place of .org, or an abuse of a country-code top-level domain such as .cm, .co or .om in place of .com. Once a victim reaches the typosquatted site, copied or similar content is often used to convince them they are on the genuine site, and spam email sometimes uses typosquatted URLs to lure victims to malicious pages.