Word of the Week

(For the week of 26 June - 2 July 2022)

 

ty.po.squat.ting n: the practice of operating websites with URLs slightly different from very popular websites, in hopes of luring typographically-challenged web users into a being defrauded.

ex: "Popular website owners typically maintain several similarly-named domains so as to mitigate the risk of typosquatting."

 

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