Definition of "typosquatting"

typosquatting

noun
uncountable
1. (Internet) A form of cybersquatting that involves the registration of domain names likely to be mistyped by users.
  Quotations
  It's a technique, a sort of "typosquatting," that Maly has used repeatedly. A Web site called "Jobonline.cz" was registered last March and two months later Maly bought jobsonline.cz.
  2000 April 4, ICB Toll Free News, “TYPO-SQUATTING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC”, in Toll Free 800, Domain Name, and ENUM Industry News and Information‎, archived from the original on 17 January 2004
  The decline in traditional, direct cybersquatting was accompanied by a rise in a form of indirect cybersquatting known as typosquatting. A typosquatter attempts to cash in on the traffic generated by high-volume Web sites.
  2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, 2nd edition, ABC-CLIO, page 59