Google Making Nearly $500m From Typosquatting

Google Inc. may be raking in a massive $500 million a year from the companies and individuals who register misleading domain addresses, according to a recent study. The study, conducted by a noted Harvard Professor Ben Edelman, is pivoting around a contentious technique known as “typosquatting”, which involves registering for an improperly spelled variant of some popular website address. Presented at the Financial Security and Data Cryptography conference in...