A Networking question say with the Internet

[George Hester]

How can it be if a person types a mishmash of alpha characters in the
address bar of a browser mimicing say a web address so that it has a chance
to succeed but doesn't to get a error (site not found) but often times I
find that addresses which I have saved in my Favories no longer work, and in
fact get redirected to my ISPs domain's index.php. What is that? Why
wouldn't that happen in the first case also? I can type in a bogus web
address in the address bar of my browser and get a legitimate error. If the
other website was in fact gone why wouldn't I also get a legitimate error
for that non-working Favorites?

 

[Bob I]

Depends entirely on someone having registered the "nearly correct"
domain name.

 

[George Hester]

Yeah you would think so. But I don't know. I got a a spoof site and again
when I clicked on it, I went to a server at my ISP. I doubt if you clickerd
it you would go to my ISP's server. Don't you think that's kind of weird?
Here it is:

http://www.wolfen.co.kr

Here you go. This redirects to

http://ww23.rr.com

which you would not be able to access because you are not a customer of Time
Warner. Don't you think that is odd?