Domainer’s Jargon
“direct navigation,” when people go into the browser url bar and type in what they’re looking for and just add “.com” to the end like “weddingshoes” and then add “.com” — according to source 10 below, millions do it [1]
tasting, Tasting takes advantage of a provision that allows domain-name buyers a free five-day trial period. Intended to protect customers who mistakenly purchase the wrong name, it handed aggressive domainers another means with which to expand — and exploit — their portfolios. [1]
“typo-squatting,” it’s a practice now coming under the same intense scrutiny long faced by cybersquatters. Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500) and Neiman Marcus are just two companies whose lawyers have brought anti-cybersquatting lawsuits, charging domainers with intentionally profiting from variations of their trademarks. [1]
Cybersquatting, according to the United States federal law known as the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price. [2]
parking, the main way that domainers make money: they fill their undeveloped domains with relevant pay-per-click ads that throw into their pockets steady cash [1]
Sources:
1. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/index.htm
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_squatting