Up people looking for Miami-Dade Clerk website — Hyphen trips
A missing hyphen led drivers to a website promoting Trump memorabilia.
The Washington Post wrote this morning regarding how a missing hyphen has led to complaints in Miami.
Police in Miami Beach gave flyers to ticketed drivers that included a URL for a Miami-Dade website where they could handle their tickets. One instance on the flyer had the correct URL: Miami-DadeClerk.com.
But the flyer also listed a common typo that missed the hyphen: miamidadeclerk .com.
The unhyphenated domain right now forwards to a search on FindSale .com for Trump-related products, counting flags, books, and hats promoting a 2024 run. [Update: the site now links to products regarding representing yourself in court.]
The “typo” version of the domain was most recently registered in 2007. It right now lists Synergy Technologies, LLC in Saint Kitts and Nevis in Whois as the registrant. That’s the same registrant name for the FindSale domain. The firm has a website at SynergyTech .com, but it doesn’t say anything regarding the firm.
Until sometime between late September and early November last year, the domain pointed to a Uniregistry Market lander. That’s when it switched to Epik’s nameservers (the registrar where the domain is registered) and was forwarded to the FindSale site.
Thus, this wasn’t someone seeing the typo on the flyer and deciding to register the domain. It’s unknown if the domain owner actually knows regarding the flyer, but they might have seen a bit more traffic following the flyer was distributed. I imagine this typo by now received a lot of traffic ahead of, and even if the flyer had the correct URL, people sometimes miss hyphens.
