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Making a fortune squatting domains on the Dark Web?

March 21, 2019 by Raymond Hackney

Typosquatting on corporate names is not the only squatting game in town. TheNextWeb has a story about someone claiming to have made $760,000 in BTC by squatting on websites that reside on the Tor network.

From the article:

A scammer is claiming to have made 200 BTC ($760,000) through ‘typosquatting’ criminal dark web sites on the Tor network, over the past four years.

The scammer says 800 domains were used, a claim Digital Shadows deems possible based on its own analysis, which found approximately 500 domains after searching across several directories.

Harrison Van Riper, a strategy and research analyst at the firm, first came across a splash page in November last year. But the investigation was heightened after he realized this wasn’t an isolated instance – soon coming across other similar pages in relation to several popular dark web marketplaces and forums.

Read the full story here

 

Filed Under: Bitcoin, Crypto Currency, Domain Names, IntellectualProperty, Technology

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

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Comments

  1. Anunt says

    March 22, 2019 at 12:48 am

    Typo squatting dark web sites…
    He is a genius…
    That is thinking outside the box

    while my stupid broke ass over here is busy typo squatting MySpace domains

  2. SldTld says

    March 22, 2019 at 6:20 pm

    It makes no sense as one could easily change the onion address and still get the same traffic. That’s the thing about TOR, .. not really fixed addresses ..it’s called “The descriptor” do you have more details ?

  3. DOMAIN ILLUMINATI says

    March 23, 2019 at 5:52 am

    ?

    With the right domain name, you should be able to make a fortune on the “bright” web (normal web) and I think I have the right domain name.

  4. Domain Science says

    March 23, 2019 at 10:36 am

    Okay, I have jewlry.com
    Does that make me a squatter?


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