Finding misspelling of my domain

[filippif]

1) I would like to find all the misspellings of my client's domain. Are there tools or sites out there to help me with this?

2) Is it possible to see how often a misspelled domains tried? I assume we are talking about domains that do not resolve.

[pendanticist]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld filippif :)

I can not speak directly to your cause, but there is an article here from October 19, 2000 that might be of interest.

'Typosquatters' [techweb.com]

In addition to registering misspelled names, like drkop.com and charlesschwaab.com, these sites also generate traffic by registering names that begin with www. If a surfer forgets to type the period between www and wsj to get to the Wall Street Journal, they will end up at Whats4free.com. If they type in wwwmicrosoft.com, they'll end up at OTCstreet.com.

The only search results are software to harvest names and register them.

[lexipixel]

If you want to find out is anyone entered what you suspect to be a misspelling of your domain, you could try it against the Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool...

[inventory.overture.com...]

I entered "goooogle" (using four O's to see if anyone ever tried it... I guess 57,000 people did last month)...

Searches done in December 2004
Count Search Term
57510 gooogle
963 gooogle com
335 gooogle .com
103 gooogle image
100 gooogle pl
42 ca gooogle
35 com gooogle tr
27 com.tr gooogle
26 buscar gooogle
26 game gooogle

You could try:

- phonetic spellings; phone, fone, fon...

- juxtapositions; ie: "ei"... or "badspell" and "spellbad"... (letters or word are switched)

- with / without hyphens

...and any of the other dozens of ways to mess up a domain name.

[fischermx]

It was 57,000 with three o's, not four :)

But we got the idea.

[Webwork]

Try typing it as fast as you can 200 times.

Then, next time you've had a few drinks try again.

Keep good records: Type it in notepad.

[filippif]

Update:

bought iFinder. Does not do much. came up with 30 misspelled versions. Tells if they are registered or not. lets you do a google search on the them.

A better product is TypoPositive.
Very nice application that returned 57 results that included all the iFinder ones. The options included misspelling, omit letters, transpose letters, wrong keys, double strike. It also gave an option for recursive errors but I did not use it. It comes back with to many replies.

So I put all the results in a monitoring account so I can easily determine their status.

Of course they are all registered.

so far that is what I got. More later

Frank

[edited by: tedster at 3:04 am (utc) on Feb. 11, 2005]
[edit reason] remove link, domains [/edit]

[Thermo]

Here are some links to some excellent domain name selection sites. You can check keywords, spelling variations, etc.

[dnwiz.com...]

[nameboy.com...]

[#*$!.com...] (Not sure why this keeps changing from word tracker dot com to what is showing, but anyway, word tracker is another option for checking domain name misspellings.)