With over 50 million users, Facebook is one of the most accessed domains in the world. The amount of people who access the site is incredible – one days visitors to Facebook is a number some website owners can only hope and pray they get in a year. With such a popular domain comes those parked domains infested with ads etc who feed off the typing errors of Facebook users. An example is www.facebok.com which is what I came across today and is the main reason for this article.
In between lectures, as every other student does, I had to check my Facebook. So I quickly typed in the domain name but by accident misspelled Facebook in my rush. In realising my mistake, my thoughts were that I would be redirected to Facebook as the majority of popular websites cater for the spelling errors of their users. But no. I wasn’t even redirected to a parked domain webpage. I was redirected to the homepage of GoDaddy – that’s the homepage, not a page saying the domain name is availiable. I didn’t know what to think and set out to see what other misspelled Facebook domains would yield. The most notable one was www.faebook.com which resulted in the homepage of Amazon.com – Yes, Amazon.
So what does this lead me to say? I’m not to sure myself but it is surprising that Facebook has not registered the common mis-spells of their name. And for Amazon and GoDaddy to own the commonly mispelled domains makes me think that Facebook has missed a trick here.
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