Typosquatting
Typosquatting involves registering domain names that resemble your brand by exploiting common typing mistakes. Deceived visitors land on fraudulent sites used for phishing, malvertising, or competitor traffic capture.
Définition
Typosquatting is the deliberate practice of registering typographical variants of a legitimate domain name — transposed, omitted, or substituted letters, alternative extensions — with the aim of capturing traffic intended for the target brand. These domains are commonly used for phishing attacks, traffic resale, or competing ad campaigns.
Exemples
Examples: gooogle.com instead of google.com, amaz0n.com with a zero replacing the O, or your own brand with .net or .co instead of .com. Typosquatters may also use similar unicode characters (homoglyphs) to create visually identical URLs.
How Scourio detects this threat
Scourio monitors new domain registrations and search results to identify typographical variants of your brand. Each suspect domain is flagged with a risk level and action recommendations (UDRP, takedown request).