OpenDNS kills the typosquatting operation -
Company to shut down NXD error redirect service.
OpenDNS announced this week that it is shutting down a service that was, in effect, a giant typosquatting operation.
Millions of people use OpenDNS as an alternative to their ISP’s DNS. The useful service needed a way to make money, and it found a very lucrative one: whenever someone would type in a non-existent domain name (NXD), OpenDNS would show them a search results page that also included Yahoo! ads.
Other ISPs ... read more ...
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Verisign gets obvious for self-existent domain trade analysis -
Patent covers tool to identify potentially valuable unregistered domain names.
The U.S Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to Verisign that covers analysis of traffic to non-existent domain names.
U.S. Patent number 8,504,673 (pdf) is titled “Traffic like NXDomains”. I wrote about this patent last year when it was published.
Here’s the patent abstract:
Methods and systems for analyzing network traffic related to domain names, including Non-Existent ... read more ...