Here are some great famous examples of typosquatting

* The domain of the Web site of the President of the United States, whitehouse.gov, has two high-profile "misspellings": whitehouse.com, which was a pornographic Web site, and whitehouse.org, a satirical site.
* Wikipedia is also a victim of typosquatting: www.wiipedia.org, www.eikipedia.org, www.wilipedia.org, en.wikipedi.org, and www.,wikipedi.com [as of 2006], are all websites which contain pop-up ads, spyware/adware downloads, and ad-generating search engines.
* A related gambit is obtaining "800" numbers that correspond to misspellings; a good illustration is AT&T's sudden abandonment of "1-800-OPERATOR" and replacing it with "1-800-CALL-ATT". It seems that many Americans don't know how to spell operator, enough that MCI Communications was raking in a lot of business with "1-800-OPERATER", reaping the benefits of AT&T's advertising. (In both numbers, the final "R" is superfluous.)
* The National Austrian Public Service Broadcaster "ORF" was typosquatted by 0rf.at a net art site.
* Google's anti-typosquatting defense is incomplete; as of April 2006, www.goggle.com redirects to a suspicious anti-spyware vendor rather than to Google. The site attempts to spam users with a popup and foist an executable download upon them without any further user action.

i remember that whitehouse porn thing.
Its amazing the whitehouse hadnt bought those domains to start with!

hehe about wiki site.
why didnt they register all these to start with? pretty silly

Because if you buy all typos domains you will need to buy ALOT!! Think of all the posibilities!

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With all this talk about the spyware and viruses, I think I'm going to take better care when typing in those web addresses.

In Ontario, Canada a female politician had a very similar domain name to a mild porn site.

You can imagine the results...

Yes that will be too bad for her to let her site's visitor to go on some porn site thinking about her !
there will be very bad impression!

In her case, she embarrassed herself with her private life and by switching political parties anyway, so the website was the least of her problems.