Faceboook.com is the domain to have (count the ‘o’s) if typo squatting is your game. That’s because Faceboook.com is the most popular mistyped entry into a browser URL bar, according to data collected and analyzed by Chris Finke from his browser add-on, URL Fixer. Of course people intended to go to Facebook.com. But when visitors find themselves at Faceboook.com they are told they’ve won some sort of contest for Facebook users. That’s a lot of lucky Faceboook winners, I can only guess.
Yahoo!’s toolbar also explains why it is only the seventh most popular typed-in URL, despite being a top-five domain. This logic doesn’t hold up for Twitter.com, in a tie for the fourth-most popular typed-in domain with gmail.com, because I would have thought that very few users are actually accessing Twitter via its website these days, given the plethora of Twitter clients out there.
Rounding out the top 10 typed domains are Youtube.com, tied for second, mail.google.com at sixth, Hotmail.com tied with Yahoo, amazon.com in ninth and reddit.com is the tenth-most popular typed domain. Finke also found that the top 10 typed domains make up 20 percent of all typed domain entries.
Google and Facebook dominate the most-popular typed domains worldwide. The only countries included in the data set where one of the two companies don’t control the most popular domain are Russia, Finland, Korea and China.
Another interesting note from the data is the slow death of the “www” prefix. Finke found slightly more than half of all URL entries did not include it.