There are people who register domain names similar in some way to existent domains or well known brand in order to get traffic from users who type the URL with a mistake

I’m happy to announce one of my websites had become well known as such a traffic interceptor has been created for it :)

People here http://www.idnforums.com/forums/552-looking-for-russian-idn-with-traffic.html discuss that услуги.net brings a lot of hits every day and it’s probably because of typos of the people targeting www.uslugi.net which is my Ukrainian business directory (uslugi means “services” in Russian). Indeed some people try to type the URL in Russian which results in taking them to some crazy URL (xn--c1akhxjc.net in my case). Some witty dudes take advantage of it. I think the same thing applies in every country with non-Latin alphabet. I’m personally not fond of cybersquatting despite this can bring some real money.

BTW I plan to issue an English version for this business directory so that people from other countries can find info about companies in Ukrainian market. Hope to be able to add automated translation into English for all ads however this promises to be non-trivial task as Google haven’t issued any official API for its translator service yet.

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