Microsoft is suing people who take URLs designed to take advantage of a mistyped Microsoft URL. (And I’ve typed it as Microfost so many times, I’ve gone to these weasel sites before.) I wouldn’t have cared much about the story for LR – another MS lawsuit, yawn – but the portmanteau word in the headline caught my eye. As the longtime pusher of “viewsers,” I support any effort to coin a new word. In this case, people who squat on URLs designed to take avantage of bad typers are called “typosquatters.” I like it.
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