Industry News Summary – Week 7
Recent domain name news from the last week:
ICANN fails to trace quarter of website owners
More than three-quarters of Internet domain registrants have incomplete, invalid or false names. And 22 percent of website owners proved to be impossible to trace. That’s according to a survey conducted by the University of Chicago on behalf of Internet registry agency ICANN which looked at how accurate the results were for people who used the WHOIS connection to try to trace domain name holders.
The report Draft Report for the Study of the Accuracy of WHOIS Registrant Contact Information details some of the problems faced by domain name registries. Read full article here
Google May Earn $497 Million a Year from Typosquatting
A new study suggests that Google may earn $497 million a year from typosquatters targeting the 100,000 most popular .com sites on the web.
The study reviewed the top 3,264 .COM web sites, and found that 0.7% of their traffic was from typos. It then extrapolated this to the top 100,000 .com sites, assuming that much typo traffic to those sites as well. The truth is, typosquatters rarely target these less popular sites, meaning that less of their traffic is typosquatted. Read full article here
