#cybersquatting
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #cybersquatting from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #cybersquatting
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-10 11:50 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-10 11:50 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-10 11:50 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 39 public posts (spanning ~70667 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (18) · French (12) · Russian (2) · German (2) · Vietnamese (1) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.3
Top of the latest posts
Looking at the February-April 2023 phishing activity, one trend stands out. The story... In March, @briankrebs reported that Meta had filed a lawsuit against Freenom, see https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/sued-by-meta-freenom-halts-domain
securityskeptic :donor: :verified:@securityskeptic@infosec.exchange♥ 4↻ 142023-05-22 16:30 UTCView post →Interesting story from @tedium about an extortion scheme targeting prominent personalities on Bluesky who don't own their own domain. "Cybersquatting is not a new issue, of course, but Bluesky’s decision to tie verification to domains as so
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What “cybersquatting” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediacybersquatting
- nounThe registration of a well-known brand or company name as an Internet domain name in the hope of selling it at a later date
Cybersquatting is the practice of registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name, with a bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The term is derived from "squatting", which is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building that the squatter does not own, rent, or otherwise have permission to use.
“Cybersquatting” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#cybersquatting across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #cybersquatting straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/cybersquatting