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Re:Have I Been Squatted? by metadat on Monday September 26, 2022 @12:52PM (#32985387)
Does it also detect bit squatting?

See:

"Bit-squatting – DNS hijacking by cosmic rays/memory errors" (2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2944445

"What Flips Your Bit: Cosmic Ray Errors at Mozilla" (2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31016042

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Re:Have I Been Squatted? by juxhindb on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:41PM (#32990059)
Yes it does, you can take a peak into the internals over here - https://github.com/JuxhinDB/twistrs/blob/3b20ed48c0c567a72d8...
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Re:Have I Been Squatted? by dmurray on Monday September 26, 2022 @06:42PM (#32989564)
It looks like it detects, among other things, all domains with edit distance one from your domain. That's a superset of all bit squat domains.
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