Soundsquatting : Homophone domain name registrations the next big thing?

Posted by DomainGang on March 26, 2015, at 10:26 am

Cybersquatting is so 20th century. Welcome to the new trend in domain registrations: soundsquatting. Defined as the use of similar sounding letters to seemingly circumvent the direct issues arising from the registration of trademarks, soundsquatting utilizes homophones for that purpose. For example: YewTube, EweTube and the classic MikeRoweSoft, are all soundsquatting samples; these domains are […]

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