The original idea has a better name: Bitsquatting[0]
"Experiment
To determine whether bit7errors can redirect connections to attacker controlled sites, the bitsquat domains in Table 3 were registered, and all HTTP requests to the domains were logged. The domains, such as li6e.com, mic2osoft.com, and fjcdn.net are very unlikely to be typos or keyboard errors."
"Experiment To determine whether bit7errors can redirect connections to attacker controlled sites, the bitsquat domains in Table 3 were registered, and all HTTP requests to the domains were logged. The domains, such as li6e.com, mic2osoft.com, and fjcdn.net are very unlikely to be typos or keyboard errors."
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