This is one weird scam. Someone registered the domain Faebook.com (Facebook without a C) and redirected it, using an iframe, to Amazon – of course, with his/her own Amazon referrals. It’s the good old tactics of using misspelled domain names for profit, but it’s uncommon to see such an obvious misspelling of a site as big as Faebook used like this.
Some have suggested this may be Amazon’s doing, but you can clearly see the difference in registration details here:
Domain Name: FAEBOOK.COM
Registrant [1003228]:
Moniker Privacy Services
20 SW 27th Ave.
Suite 201
Pompano Beach
FL
33069
US
Amazon’s own records look different:
Registrant:
Amazon.com, Inc
Legal Dept, P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
US
Domain Name: AMAZON.COM
It will be interesting to see how this one pans out over the coming months.
PS: I wonder if anyone has registered Midacode.co.uk yet? 😉
Tyler says:
Dean,
Off-topic, but I would love to see a post that showed a sample email you would send to a website owner that didn’t actually have their site listed for sale but that you stumbled across and were interested in purchasing…I’ve found several websites like this (good rankings but neglected/not updated & under-monetized), but it would be great to hear from someone with actual experience before I sent them any emails. Thanks in advance for your help!
Keith Mander says:
Good point Tyler. I have my own tactic, but would like to see how others approach this.