The practice of acquiring and registering internet domain names that are similar to a particular brand or easily associated with another company, for the purpose of benefiting from the confusion generated, diverting the brand's natural public, or reselling the domain to the brand at a profit.
A variant of this practice is Typosquatting.
Other denominations:
Cybersquatting, domain squatting
Other internet
related terms
A
- Above the fold →
- Aggregator →
- Alexa →
- Algorithm →
- Alt attribute →
- AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) →
- Anchor text →
- Anonymous FTP →
- Anti-spam and antivirus filter →
- Apache →
- API →
- App →
- App invasion →
- ARIA →
- Artificial intelligence →
- ASO →
- Atom →
- Auto-responders →
- Avatar →
B
- B2B e-commerce →
- Back-end →
- Back-end web development →
- Baidu →
- Bitcoin →
- Blockchain →
- Blog →
- Blogger →
- Blogosphere →
- Blogroll →
- Bluetooth →
- Bookmarklet →
- Bootcamp →
- Botnet →
- Breadcrumbs →
- Breakpoint →
- Brick and mortar →
- Broken link →
- Browser →
C
- Cache →
- Captcha →
- Catch-all →
- Chief Information Security Officer →
- Click and mortar →
- Clickbait →
- Cloud computing →
- Clustering →
- CMS →
- Collaborative economy →
- Compulsory fields →
- Container →
- Conversion form →
- Cookies →
- Copyleft →
- Copyright →
- Copywriter →
- Corporate website →
- Creative Commons →
- Crowdfunding →
- CSS →
- Customer Data Platforms →
- Customer experience →
- Cyber security →
- Cybermule →
- Cybersquatting →
D
- Darknet →
- Data center →
- Dedicated server →
- Deep web →
- Digitalization →
- Direct traffic →
- Disk space →
- Domain →
- Dot-com →
- Dot-com bubble →
- Drone →
- Drop shipping →
- Drupal →
- Duplicated content →
E
F
- Facebook →
- Facebook Live →
- FAQ →
- Favicon →
- Favourites →
- Footer →
- Free software →
- Front-end web development →
- FTP →
G
- Google →
- Google Alerts →
- Google Earth →
- Google Maps →
- Google My Business →
- Google Plus →
- Google review →
- Google Sitemaps →
- Google Street View →
- Google Translate →
- Googlebot →
H
- H1 →
- Happy path →
- Hashtag →
- Hater →
- Hick's Law →
- Hoax →
- Hosting →
- Housing →
- HTML →
- HTML5 →
- HTTP →
- HTTP header →
- HTTP/2 →
- Hyperlink →
I
- ICT →
- Infinite scroll →
- Infographics →
- Infoxication →
- Instagram →
- Insurtech →
- Intranet →
- IoT →
- IP address →
J
j
K
- Keyline →
- Keylogger →
- Keyword prominence →
- Keyword proximity →
- Killer app →
- KISS →
- Knowledge representation →
L
M
- M2M →
- Magento →
- Mailing list →
- Mashup →
- Meme →
- Menéame →
- Menéame effect →
- Meta description →
- Meta refresh →
- Metatag →
- Microblog →
- Microsite →
- Moore's Law →
- Multi-agent system →
- MySQL database →
N
O
P
- P2P →
- PaaS →
- Pagejacking →
- Panda →
- Pay per view →
- Paypal →
- PDF →
- Periscope →
- Permalink →
- Pervasive computing →
- Phishing →
- Ping →
- Pingback →
- Pinterest →
- Pixel →
- Plugin →
- Podcast →
- Points or 'pts' →
- POP3 →
- Portal →
- Post →
- Prestashop →
- Privacy Policy →
- Proprietary software →
- Pure play →
Q
R
S
s
S
- Search engine →
- Semantic web →
- SEO copywriter →
- Server →
- Session →
- Shared server →
- Shopbot →
- Shopping cart →
- Siri →
- Site tree →
- Sitemap →
- Smartphone →
- Smishing →
- SMTP →
- Snapchat →
- Social networks →
- Spam →
- Splinternet →
- SSL →
- Stakeholder →
- Startup →
- Streaming →
- Structured data →
- Style sheet →
- Subdomain →
- Syndication →
T
- Technorati →
- Thank you page →
- Time on page →
- Token →
- Tools for webmasters →
- Trackback →
- Traffic Manager →
- Traffic sources →
- Trending topic →
- Troll →
- Tumblr →
- Tweet →
- Twitter →
- Twitter Ads →
- Twitter Media Studio →
- Typosquatting →
U
- Unique Selling Proposition →
- Unique visitor →
- Up-time →
- URL →
- Usability →
- User experience →
- User flow →
- User interface →
V
W
- W3C →
- WAP →
- WapMail →
- Wearable →
- Web 2.0 →
- Web copywriter →
- Web crawler →
- Webinar →
- WebMail →
- Webmaster →
- Whois →
- Widget →
- Wiki →
- Woocommerce →
- WordPress →
- WPO (Web Performance Optimization) →
- Wysiwyg →
X
Y