Recently, I bought the domain name: bashfishing.com. Not
bassfishing.com, but bashfishing.com. (The difference is an "sh"
instead of an "ss" in the word: bass.)
 
Here's how it happened...
 
One day I was visiting my chiropractor and picked up a business
card for a guy who owns a website called bassfishing.org. He's a
fishing guide in my area. His business card was compelling and
made me want to check out his site.
 
When I got home I turned on my computer and opened my web
browser. I then proceeded to look at his business card and type
the following: bashfishing.org
 
The site returned an error. Again, I put my cursor back in my
browser address bar, looked at his card again and typed the
following: bashfishing.org
 
I got another error. I thought maybe the site was down but then
I realized something... I had misspelled the domain name. I was
typing bashfishing.org instead of bassfishing.org. As soon as I
corrected this mistake, the website opened up just fine.
 
And then it hit me like a ton of bricks...
 
If I misspelled that domain TWICE IN A ROW maybe other people
misspell it too. Therefore, I immediately went to Google and
typed in "bash fishing". Here's the page Google returned:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22bash+fishing%22
 
At the time of this writing, Google lists 1,870 pages on the
Internet that misspelled "bass fishing" exactly the same way I
misspelled it: "bash fishing".
 
Next, I went to my favorite domain registrar to see if
bashfishing.com (the misspelling of bassfishing.com) was
available. It was.
 
Then I went over to ClickBank.com to see to if there were any
bass fishing related info products that I could affiliate with
to earn commissions. In fact, there were a few of them and the
sales letters for each product looked pretty good.
 
So I went back to my domain registrar and registered
bashfishing.com. Then I got my ClickBank affiliate link for the
bass fishing info product I wanted to promote, logged into my
registrar and setup a re-direct link that pointed from my newly
acquired bashfishing.com domain to my new affiliate link for the
bass fishing info product. Voila!
 
Here's the result: http://www.BashFishing.com
 
Now every time someone opens their web browser and intends to
type bassfishing.com but makes the same mistake I made and
spells it bashfishing.com, they will be re-directed to the sales
page for the bass fishing info product I'm promoting. If they
buy it, I'll earn a 75% commission on the $29.95 purchase price
of the product. That's not too bad for 15 minutes of work.
 
Will this strategy make me any money?
 
I thought it had good potential, but it has been a few months
now and I have not made any sales yet. However, just one sale
per year would make this a profitable investment for me and I
still believe that's possible. Only time will tell though.
 
Still, I'm certainly not the only one testing this strategy. A
quick Google search for "misspelled domain names" will pull up
hundreds of result and discussions on the subject.
 
Another example of this technique in action is from a popular
public speaker named Fred Gleek who owns Speeking.com which, of
course, is a misspelling of the word "speaking". In a seminar I
attended where Fred spoke, he claimed to be receiving a steady
flow of qualified traffic from that misspelled domain name.
 
If you want to try your hand at this game yourself but can't
think of any misspelled domain names on your own, I just found a
site that has a "misspelled domain name traffic finder" software
program that you can check out for free at:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/misdomain.html
 
Who knows? Maybe you'll harvest your own online fortune by using
misspelled domain names to your advantage... Good luck! 

Stone Evans is the author of "Dotcomology - The Science of
Making Money Online" and he wants you to know that you shouldn't
pay a dime for any ebook, marketing course, software program or
anything else until you've read the groundbreaking document you
can download free at: http://www.Dotcomology.com