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  1. October 20th, 2003, 11:27 PM #1
    spools.exe
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    Yahoo MultiDomain/Spellcheck?

    OKay i've noticed that when i goto www.yahoo.com and mispell the address it still takes me to Yahoo.com. The following addresses will redirect you to yahoo.com

    http://ayhoo.com/
    http://yhaoo.com/

    Does that mean that they are spending money of 2 more domain names just for people who cant spell or mispell a word?

    I thought it was neat and something to share.
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  2. October 21st, 2003, 12:48 AM #2
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    yes

    Yes, Yahoo! Inc. has registered both of those domains, in addition to their real one. Here is the registrant info:

    Registrant:
    Yahoo! Inc.
    (DOM-269234)
    701 First Avenue Sunnyvale
    CA
    94089 US

    Domain Name: yhaoo.com

    Registrar Name: Alldomains.com
    Registrar Whois: whois.alldomains.com
    Registrar Homepage: http://www.alldomains.com

    Administrative Contact:
    Domain Administrator
    (NIC-1373476)
    Yahoo! Inc.
    701 First Avenue Sunnyvale
    CA
    94089 US
    [email protected] +1.4083493300 Fax- +1.4083493301
    Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
    Domain Administrator
    (NIC-1372925)
    Yahoo! Inc.
    701 First Avenue Sunnyvale
    CA
    94089 US
    [email protected] +1.4083493300 Fax- +1.4083493301

    Created on..............: 1999-Nov-23.
    Expires on..............: 2005-Nov-23.
    Record last updated on..: 2003-Apr-07 10:42:46.

    Domain servers in listed order:

    NS1.YAHOO.COM 66.218.71.63
    NS5.YAHOO.COM 216.109.116.17
    NS2.YAHOO.COM 66.163.169.170
    NS3.YAHOO.COM 217.12.4.104
    NS4.YAHOO.COM 63.250.206.138
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  3. October 21st, 2003, 12:50 AM #3
    sumdumguy
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    there seems to be http://ahoo.com/ too..

    hehe.. tried achoo and got what I expected.. a Healthcare site.
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  4. October 21st, 2003, 01:00 AM #4
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    This is slightly irrelevant to the main post:

    A few years back people registered "sound alike" typos and tried to sell them to the major corporations concerned.

    I think that this is a proactive response?

    Cheers
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  6. October 21st, 2003, 08:41 AM #5
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    too bad hotmail does'nt have any stuff like that,but yahoo does it for good as peple new to internet can ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,well learn to spell correctly!!

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  7. October 21st, 2003, 02:42 PM #6
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  8. October 21st, 2003, 02:48 PM #7
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    It's better than someone spoofing sites and stealing privilaged information by people who are not security smart enough to make sure. These people already comprimise themselves via email, why make it easier for them to do it other places. In the end some idiot may end up suing the company because the site was spelled incorrectly and they[the idiot] ended up giving away their credit card number, etc.
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