DomainTools Blog

We have had a Domain Typo Generator tool inside our R&D lab for a while, however we never released it. Now that we will be publishing an open “Trademark Blacklist“, we feel it is safe to release the tool. We didn’t want to empower domain squatters by releasing the tool, but then again if we didn’t release it then Trademark Attorneys would not be able to find domain squatters. A squatter already knows how to come up with typos, so this tool is meant to level the playing field. Attorneys have less tools than you would think and so we thought it would be appropriate to launch after our announcement of the blacklist. The Tool is only for Gold Members, but we have made a special link for Blog readers to give them free access to the tool for a limited period of time.

http://www.domaintools.com/domain-typo/?free=yes

The tool has a lot of options like Qwerty Typos, Letter Swaps, Sticky Keys, and Look-a-like domains.  It has a total of 13 types of typos, and we plan to release more in the future. Inside the application we have a DNS view, which allows a user to group the Typos by users of the domains. It is easy to spot parking companies and other people that have registered large batches of domain names.

We want feedback on the tool, and we are planning a dashboard to manage groups of search results. Once a search has been done, a user will be able to select the domains they want to follow up with and leave notes on the dashboard. Each search results in a few hundred typos, so it will be important to be able to manage them.