Does anyone profit from typo-squatting?

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I realize that company names are trademarked and whatnot, but from what I've read, you can still use domains with similar names as long as you don't mouse-jack or deceive the user. You can at least, park a domain on a site such as Sedo, and gain advertising revenue that way.

The question is, do any of you guys/gals get a decent enough traffic to make money off of these sites? Without grabbing a big named brand that is mis-typed like peosi.com <-- pepsi.com ;), is it even worth it? Let's hear some success and/or failure stories. I'm sure some of you have attempted to gain some $$ off of doing this. Thanks.
 
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I don't, but I know many domainers who do. It's a rather grey area, gives us domainers a bad rep.
 
I make about ten dollars a day from misspells. However, I can make about $100 a day with other domains, so it's not really my main strategy. I bought them as more of an experiment.
 
I buy misspells of government tourism authority sites in my niche. It's a very easy to do miss spell that gets lots of type in traffic due to TV and print advertising
 
partymarty4870 said:
I buy misspells of government tourism authority sites in my niche. It's a very easy to do miss spell that gets lots of type in traffic due to TV and print advertising
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Thanks dude. I'm gonna spend a hundred bucks on some haha. I hope it works out.
 
They are indeed grey but if it makes money, then why not.
 
Once some idiot work at home company launched their site on .info domain, I went ahead and registered the .com version. In a few days, the traffic and revenue was flowing. It remained live for a year or so and then died resulting in no or very less traffic on my domain. I made quite a good amount with it. Never found such better typo domain afterwards although I sometimes do hunt for them. The best idea is typo squatting is to look for sites that don't care about legal issues.
 
I think typo squatting has died down quite a lot recently, with google's auto correct searching. The only traffic you usually get now for these are just type in traffic, which you aint always going to get.
 
Seadragon said:
I think typo squatting has died down quite a lot recently, with google's auto correct searching. The only traffic you usually get now for these are just type in traffic, which you aint always going to get.
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Yeah, but domain parking companies usually only accept type in traffic... so that's kind of the point.
 
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