Speaking of misspellings (my last article), while reviewing a list of recently deleted names, I came across something interesting. Now, I know that domain investors purposefully buy domain names that are common misspellings of a popular, active domain name in the hopes that a significant minority of people misspell the domain name and wind up on their parked page. But, last week I saw an example of taking a good idea to way too far!

Within the list of deleted domains, I saw 78 misspelled variations of KOACampGround.com. Yes, that was 78. I think this “investor” must have obviously learned his or her lesson on that one, and just let them all expire. Geez, it not like he was doing misspellings of a popular domain name like Google.com or something. KOA Campgrounds? Come on!

Compounding the problems for our fellow domainer–and I can only assume these must be his too, since they expired on the same day–was his other, equally disastrous attempt. There were also 95 domains that were misspellings of FactoryDirectFurniture.com! How many people are actually keying in FactoryDirectFurniture.com with the correct spelling? LOL!

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