Now Joe will create a domain service that offers to register all the typos surrounding your startup brand at a discounted price and automatically sets up these cool transitions using some clever Hamming distance stuff. Or just licenses the tech from SRI. Luckily for Joe the market is huge for this, just look at the names in the latest YC batch. We're seeing the full effect of Moore's Law on the ways to mistype the latest trendy app.<p>Joe is going to disrupt the precision address bar typing market. "It's Autocomplete, but for URLs!"
OP here. I was typing GH into my URL bar and noticed (before I hit enter) that I had typed hitgub.com. I laughed and thought to myself "I should register that!"<p>Then I hit enter, expecting to get an error, and was quite surprised to see that GitHub had beaten me to the punch. Kudos to them for protecting that typo from a domain squatter.
this is quite cool, and it's good to see that github parks its own typos - I've seen far too many "What you need when you need it" landing pages from getting a letter wrong while typing a domain.