Doesn’t Facebook get typos?
It appears College.com does. I was going to login to my facebook account today to checkup on the SharedReviews group, and fat-fingered the address by mistake. Looky where I ended up: http://www.college.com/?xref=faceboook.com&a=4
Considering College.com is a direct competitor to Facebook, it’s pretty smart of them (minus opening the door to a lawsuit) to try and bleed away some of the traffic by taking advantage of the fact Facebook doesn’t get it when it comes to typo protection of their domain. This is why we registered a whole bunch of typo’s of our domain before we even got off the ground floor
IMHO unethical and nothing I would ever do, but if your biggest competitor leaves the door wide open like that…
Well, considering facebook is valued at 15 billion dollars you would think they would spend some money on those other domains. I don’t think college.com did anything wrong. I’m sure facebook isn’t worried about losing traffic to them.
Comment by Ian at College Colosseum
October 26th, 2007 @ 7:15 pm
I actually read about College.com in our student newspaper and then also came across the same domain mistype you mentioned. I registered and there seems to be a lot of users at Florida State. Interested to see if it catches on.
Comment by sam
November 2nd, 2007 @ 8:23 am