Seven Months' Worth of Mistakes: A Longitudinal Study of Typosquatting Abuse

摘要: Typosquatting is the act of purposefully registering a domain name that mistype popular name. It concept has been known and studied for over 15 years, yet still thoroughly practiced up until this day. While previous typosquatting studies have always taken snapshot landscape or base their longitudinal results only on registration data, we present first contentbased, study typosquatting. We collected data about domains 500 most sites Internet every day, period seven months, use to establish whether previously discovered trends hold today, provide new insights in landscape. In particular reveal that, even though 95% investigated are actively targeted by typosquatters, few trademark owners protect themselves against practice proactively own domains. take advantage aspect our show, among other results, change hands from typosquatters legitimate vice versa, vary monetization strategy hosting different types pages time. Our also reveals large fraction can be traced back small group page hosters certain top-level much more prone than others.