Question 1

What is typosquatting?

Accepted Answer

Typosquatting is the registration of lookalike domains (gogle.com, go0gle.com, google-support.com) to impersonate a brand — typically for phishing, credential theft, or malware distribution. Attackers exploit common typing mistakes, keyboard adjacency, and visual homoglyphs.

Question 2

How does the brand protection checker work?

Accepted Answer

Enter your domain and the checker generates typo variants using omission, duplication, transposition, keyboard substitution, homoglyphs, hyphenation, and TLD swaps. Each variant is probed via DNS, MX, and web checks, then classified by risk so you can prioritize takedowns.

Question 3

What should I do about a high-risk typosquat domain?

Accepted Answer

For domains actively phishing your customers, file a UDRP complaint or registrar abuse report, notify your customers, and consider defensive registration of the closest variants. For parked variants, monitoring plus DMARC enforcement (p=reject) on your own domain limits the damage of email spoofing.

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