There are a number of tools on the market for finding “typo” domains. I personally am not a fan of such domains, especially when it comes to buying typos of trademarks. But there are legitimate circumstances for buying typo domains, such as typos of domains you already own or typos of common words (e.g., city names).
One of the more powerful tools to enter the market is sTypo. Finding misspellings with sTypo is fairly easy. You just enter the domain and click “Generate Typos”. The software usually generates 30-80 typos for the domain. You then click “Scan Typos” and the system goes to work checking Overture to see if any of the typos with extensions are in Overture. There are a number of competing tools that perform this basic Overture lookup.
Of course, you will rarely find an unregistered Overture domain (at least in English). But sTypo goes a step further by telling you details about the domain’s availability. For example, it will tell you if the domain is currently parked with paid parking services like DomainSponsor and Google. This is powerful. Say you come across a typo domain with an Overture rating that isn’t parked. The owner might not know about the existing traffic, so you can contact the owner and offer to buy the domain.
There’s one annoying thing about sTypo, however. In order to prevent being banned by Overture for pinging its servers too frequently, you need to use proxy servers. This is true of any software that does this; not just sTypo. But some software has built-in solutions to find and use proxy servers. sTypo does not. You need to search the web for these proxies, and only a fraction of the proxies work (many of them have already been banned from pinging Overture). Keep in mind that repeated pinging of Overture’s suggestion tool violates its Terms of Service, too. If sTypo adds an automated proxy system, this sofware will be a true winner.
Igal says
take a look at the functionality of the TypoMIZER which is only a small part of more global solution