Examples
Many companies have garnered reputations for ruthlessly chasing down typosquatted names, including Verizon, Lufthansa, and Lego. Lego, for example, has spent roughly $500,000 USD on taking 309 cases through UDRP proceedings.
Celebrities have also frequently pursued their domain names, from singers to star athletes. Prominent examples include Basketball player Dirk Nowitzki's UDRP of DirkSwish.com and actress Eva Longoria's UDRP of EvaLongoria.org.
An example of corporate typosquatting is yuube.com, targeting YouTube users. Similarly, www.airfrance.com has been typosquatted by www.arifrance.com, diverting users to a website peddling discount travel.
And even Wikipedia itself has been frequently targeted by typosquatters, with several different URLs; in addition to the URL mentioned in the Infobox screenshot, "wikipeda.org" (Wikipedia without the third lowercase 'I'), which seems to host an imitation of Wikipedia that really redirects users to spam, and "vvikipedia.org" (using two V's instead of a 'W'), which supposedly is hosted by GoDaddy and is a simple single page with nothing but ads on it.
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