Typo patterns / 03

TLD confusion

The name is right; the ending isn't. Drop one letter of .com and you're on a country's domain, run by a different registry and owned by someone else.

You meant

example.com

You typed

What it is

Everything after the last dot is the top-level domain, or TLD. There are hundreds of them: generic ones like .com and .org, and one for nearly every country, like .in or .co.

Owning example.com gives you nothing on any other ending. Each country domain is run by its own registry under its own rules, and many accept registrations from anywhere. A one-letter slip at the end of an address can land on a domain in a different country, owned by a different person.

One-letter slips

The endings that are one missing letter away from .com and .net, and the country each belongs to.

You meant	You typed	How	Country domain of
example.com	example.co	Dropped the m	Colombia
example.com	example.cm	Dropped the o	Cameroon
example.com	example.om	Dropped the c	Oman
example.net	example.ne	Dropped the t	Niger
example.net	example.et	Dropped the n	Ethiopia

.co is the easiest of these to hit: it's a prefix of .com, so stopping a letter early is enough, and it's marketed widely as a general-purpose ending. TypoScan scores these endings as some of the most likely variants of any .com name.

Two-part endings

Some countries put names under a second level, like .co.uk. The shorter ending is a different domain.

You meant	You typed	Country
example.co.uk	example.uk	United Kingdom
example.co.in	example.in	India
example.com.au	example.au	Australia

Where a registry lets people register directly under the country code, dropping the middle part lands on a separate name. If your domain ends in .co.uk, the matching .uk is worth checking first. TypoScan keeps these endings together when it parses your domain, so it varies your name, not the co.

Same name, other endings

Not every wrong ending is a typo. People guess: they assume a company is on .com when it's on .io, or the other way round. Scammers use the same guess, registering your name on .net, .org, .app or a cheap new ending and counting on it looking official.

Squatters go further and combine the two: a typo of your name on another ending. In a 2025 study of 2.3 million lookalikes of the most visited sites, that was the most common kind by far, at 49%; a typo on the original ending was 2%. TypoScan lists your name on the endings squatters favour, like .net, .xyz and .top, and tries your likeliest typos on them too.

Try it

Type any domain to see the endings people slip onto.

example.com19 lookalikes

example.co“.co” instead of “.com”High likelihood, 88
example.cm“.cm” instead of “.com”High likelihood, 86
example.om“.om” instead of “.com”High likelihood, 82
example.netSame name on “.net”High likelihood, 79
example.orgSame name on “.org”Medium likelihood, 73
example.xyzSame name on “.xyz”Medium likelihood, 67
example.topSame name on “.top”Medium likelihood, 63
example.onlineSame name on “.online”Medium likelihood, 61

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