Typosquatter Used Misspelled Domains to Intercept Email, Claims $1 Million Lawsuit
Found on Wired on Monday, 25 June 2012
A man accused of typosquatting is being sued for $1 million by a law firm that alleges he set up a domain that mimics the law firm’s domain name.
The firm also asserts that clients or prospective clients “may attempt to contact our attorneys or staff using the Group’s e-mail address, and misspell the e-mail address as ‘@GiocondoloLaw.com’, which would then be intercepted by the unauthorized Registrant.”
Although this is pretty much the mistake of whoever sent the email to the wrong recipient, Kenzie will probably end up in some really hot water, especially since he tried before to sell a domain for $295 by threatening to reveal that the domain was successfully used for typosquatting.