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The original idea has a better name: Bitsquatting[0]

"Experiment To determine whether bit7errors can redirect connections to attacker controlled sites, the bitsquat domains in Table 3 were registered, and all HTTP requests to the domains were logged. The domains, such as li6e.com, mic2osoft.com, and fjcdn.net are very unlikely to be typos or keyboard errors."

[0] https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Dinaburg/BH_US_11_Dinabu...

Thanks! That's brilliant.

ISnt it more likely that it is just bots, that know your domain cos they have lists of every domain for that tld?

Same question I had. Though it wouldn't be hard to control for, just put a random honeypot domain and see how many visits it gets.

I didn't read the paper, but you'd know it'd bit squatting if the domain a-azon.com is hit with a HTTP Host header of amazon.com.

Yep, bitsquatting is also a very cool thing, first research on that topic was in 2011 IIRC :)

Typosquatting = human error

Bitsquatting = machine error (bitflip)

Bitsquatting