I thought this was a really clever twist, gamil.com gets thousands of gmail traffic, people who are going over to the gmail site sometimes type so fast and end up with gamil.com I was thinking maybe you can figure out something on the ebay traffic and probably get your fat share of the 3 billion hits a month. LOL Im interested in knowing if anyone here on DP has done this before and how well did it work
I bet a good misspelled domain is just as hard to get as the correct one. I've been thinking about this for a while now too. Anyone out there have a first hand experience?
So why doesn't someone try it, its working for gamil.com there is a little note which says to you you probably landed here cause you misspelled gmail LOL I find that funny
You can use http://adlab.microsoft.com/keyMut/default.aspx, Microsoft Labs Keyword Mutation Tool to find such most used misspellings. With such site you are about to get some more traffic, but you will convert that traffic only if that site offers the content that is alternative to the originally searched site. I mean if your ayhoo.com offers the same that yahoo offers, you´ve almost got the deal. If it sells used cars your visitors just hit the back button.
Lot's of people have thought this before, I regularly missspell domain names and I always find that if it is a big site there is always somebody there with an affilate directory.
Im going to go for this strategy of traffic buy domains that get misspelt and forward it it my sites with adsense
Guys you got to think smarter. It's impossible to get misspelled domains of sites that have been around for YEARS. I remember back in 1998 looking up mispelled versions of yahoo.com. No way something like that will be available 8 years later. Find mispelled versions of sites that are new and growing rapidly. or Find mispelled versions of new sites large companies like Microsoft create and promote as extensions or new products. There is always some lucky idiot who is one step ahead of you, so we as marketers have to work twice as hard to get half the distance. But that's all part of the challenge.
That sounds like a good way to earn a cease and desist letter from Microsoft. You have to be very careful with a plan like that. Big companies can be very territorial with their products. Even if you're in the right they can still come along bully you into handing the domain over.
Gamil was registered in 1998, six years before Gmail and about two years before Google became popular. Gamil was not registered as a deliberate mispelling but obviously gets exposure from it.....even though they have not put up ads to exploit it.
The domain speculators have been all over this for a long time and have already scoped out every possible combination of misspellings.
I always think about getting one of these domains but I don't think you'll get any people who will actually look around your site. They are just going to look at their URL and rewrite it. They don't want to go to gamil.com they want to check their email.