Occasionally I'll notice a link within a question/answer/comment that might have been legitimately mistyped, however, I'm thinking this might not always be the case.
If not paying careful attention it's very easy to click on a link without fully knowing what you are clicking on. In one such incident there was a link to what appeared to be the main url to stackoverflow.com
, although after closer examination it was missing the l
.
Since it appears the owners of the typo domain are using it in a malicious manner there is no mistake that it's something that should be avoided, and I've subsequently reported it to google. I would recommend the owners of stackoverflow.com
report it as well.
How should one deal with such things internally (on stackoverflow.com) and externally (mistyping stackoverflow.com in the address bar and ending up on a malicous website)?
*I've not used the typo name anywhere in this question, for I don't think it should be advertised, or crawled.