URLCrazy v0.3 Released March, 2011

README

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-Title:          UrlCrazy Readme
-Version:        0.2
-Description:    UrlCrazy is for the study of domainname typos / url hijacking.
-Release Date:   March 2009
-Author:         horton.nz{at-nospam}gmail, Andrew Horton (urbanadventurer)
-Primary-site:   code.google.com/p/urlcrazy
-Platforms:      Linux, Anything with Ruby
-Copying-policy: BSD
-
-
-DESCRIPTION
-UrlCrazy is for the study of domainname typos / url hijacking.
-
-It generates domainname typo permutations then tests them to learn if they are in use, estimates their popularity and more.
-
-
-TYPES OF TYPOS SUPPORTED
+Title:          URLCrazy Readme
+Version:        0.3
+Description:    UrlCrazy is for the study of domainname typos and URL hijacking
+Release Date:   March 2011
+Author:         Andrew Horton (urbanadventurer)
+Homepage:   	www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/urlcrazy
+Platforms:      Linux, Ruby
+Copying-policy: GPLv2
+
+
+Description
+------------
+URLCrazy enables the study of domainname typos and URL hijacking. URLCrazy is a domainname typo generator.
+
+Use Cases:
+	o) Detect typo squatters cashing in on your domain name
+	o) Protect your brand by registering popular typos
+	o) Identify typo domain names that will get traffic intended for a more popular domain
+
+Features:
+	o) Generates 10 types of typos
+	o) Knows over 8000 common misspellings
+	o) Multiple keyboard layouts
+	o) Check if a typo is a valid domain
+	o) Test if domain typos are in use
+	o) Estimate popularity of a typo
+
+
+Types of Typos Supported
+-------------------------
 Character Omission.
 These typos are created by leaving out a letter of the domain name, one letter at a time. For example, www.goole.com and www.gogle.com
 
+Character Repeat.
+These typos are created by repeating a letter of the domain name. For example, www.ggoogle.com and www.gooogle.com
+
 Adjacent Character Swap.
 These typos are created by swapping the order of adjacent letters in the domain name. For example, www.googel.com and www.ogogle.com
 
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 These typos are created by omitting a dash from the domainname. For example, www.domain-name.com becomes www.domainname.com
 
 Singular or Pluralise.
-These typos are created by making a singular domain plural and vice versa. For example, www.google.com becomes www.googles.com and www.trademe.co.nz becomes www.trademes.co.nz
+These typos are created by making a singular domain plural and vice versa. For example, www.google.com becomes www.googles.com and www.games.co.nz becomes www.game.co.nz
+
+Wrong Top Level Domain.
+For example, www.trademe.co.nz becomes www.trademe.co.nz and www.google.com becomes www.google.org
+Uses the 19 most common top level domains.
+
+Wrong Second Level Domain.
+Uses an alternate, valid second level domain for the top level domain.
+For example, www.trademe.co.nz becomes www.trademe.ac.nz and www.trademe.iwi.nz
 
+Common Misspellings.
+Over 8000 common misspellings from Wikipedia. For example, www.youtube.com becomes www.youtub.com and www.abseil.com becomes www.absail.com
+
+
+Supported Keyboard Layouts
+---------------------------
+Keyboard layouts supported are:
+	* QWERTY
+	* AZERTY
+	* QWERTZ
+	* DVORAK
 
 
-DOMAIN TESTS
 Is the domain valid?
 --------------------
-UrlCrazy has a database of valid top level and second level domains. This information has been compiled from wikipedia and domain registrars. We know whether a domain is valid by checking if it matches toplevel and second level domains. For example, www.trademe.co.bz is a valid domain in Belize which allows any second level domain registrations but www.trademe.xo.nz isn't because xo.nz isn't an allowed second level domain in New Zealand.
+UrlCrazy has a database of valid top level and second level domains. This information has been compiled from Wikipedia and domain registrars. We know whether a domain is valid by checking if it matches toplevel and second level domains. For example, www.trademe.co.bz is a valid domain in Belize which allows any second level domain registrations but www.trademe.xo.nz isn't because xo.nz isn't an allowed second level domain in New Zealand.
+
 
 Popularity Estimate
 -------------------
-We can estimate the relative popularity of a typo by measuring how often that typo has been made on webpages. Querying cuil.com for the number of search results for a typo gives us a indication of how popular a typo is.
+We can estimate the relative popularity of a typo by measuring how often that typo appears on webpages. Querying goole.com for the number of search results for a typo gives us a indication of how popular a typo is.
 
 The drawback of this approach is that you need to manually identify and omit legitimate domains such as googles.com
 
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 19148 goole.com
 18855 googl.com
 17842 ggoogle.com
-16490 googe.com
-16367 googgle.com
-15029 google.cm
-14773 gogole.com
-13227 googlle.com
-11646 googlee.com
-11345 googlr.com
-7417 foogle.com
-6132 hoogle.com
-5313 googlw.com
-5208 giogle.com
-5151 googke.com
-4838 goigle.com
-4662 ogogle.com
-4630 gopgle.com
-4415 goofle.com
-4118 wwwgoogle.com
-3894 goohle.com
-3399 gooigle.com
-2675 gfoogle.com
-1942 googlecom.com
-1534 gopogle.com
-1356 googfle.com
-1089 googhle.com
-892 googlew.com
-747 googlke.com
-618 goiogle.com
-614 goopgle.com
-413 ghoogle.com
-341 goolge.com
-232 googler.com
-228 gpogle.com
+
 
 IP Address
 -------------------
-If the typo domainname is in use Urlcrazy displays the IP it resolves to. An IP repeating for multiple typos or IPs in a close range shows common ownership. For example, gogle.com, gogole.com and googel.com all resolve to 64.233.161.104 which is owned by Google.
+An IP address for a typo domainname indicates it is in use.
 
+Tip: An IP repeating for multiple typos or IPs in a close range shows common ownership. For example, gogle.com, gogole.com and googel.com all resolve to 64.233.161.104 which is owned by Google.
 
 
-COUNTRY CODE DATABASE
+
+Country Code Database
+----------------------
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain
 2nd level domains here:
 http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/
 
 
-SEE ALSO
+See Also
+---------
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Typo
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting
 
 Strider is tool with similar aims and is produced by Microsoft http://research.microsoft.com/csm/strider/
 
 
-INSTALLATION
+Installation
+-------------
 UrlCrazy requires ruby. If you are using Ubuntu or Debian try:
 	$ sudo apt-get install ruby.
 
-Don't install this, instead execute it from it's own folder.
-
 
 
-CREDITS
-Authored by Andrew Horton (urbanadventurer) horton.nz {at-nospam} gmail
+Credits
+--------
+Authored by Andrew Horton (urbanadventurer). Andrew is a security consultant for Security-Assessment.com
 
 Thanks to Ruby on Rails for Inflector which allowing plural and singular permutations.
 
+