Northerntoolcom.com, CJ affiliate 3316988 typosquatting on Northern Tool

Twenty Oft-Found Commission Junction and LinkShare Affiliate Violations - Wesley Brandi and Ben Edelman

Our crawler requests Northerntoolcom.com, a clear typographic error of Northerntool.com. Consider a user who omits the "." between "northerntool" and "com". If a browser automatically adds ".com" in an effort to assist the user, as many browsers do, the user will be taken to Northerntoolcom.com.

Northerntoolcom.com redirects to the Commission Junction click link with affiliate ID 3316988, then to Northern Tool. Thus, the user ends up where he expected, and may not notice that anything was wrong. But Northern Tool has to pay an affiliate fee for this traffic. Meanwhile, were it not for this affiliate's action, a standard web browser would have offered a simple link to Northerntool.com at no charge to Northern Tool.

Northerntoolcom.com is a typosquatting domain within the meaning of ACPA and UDRP. If Northern Tool were to challenge this domain, it could recover statutory damages (ACPA) as well as the domain itself (under both ACPA and UDRP).

Violations: Forced click, typosquatting

 

Packet log

GET http://northerntoolcom.com/ ...
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: ...
Host: northerntoolcom.com
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Location: http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-3316988-10378105?cm_mmc=CJ-_-2595068-_-3316988-_-Free%20Shipping%20Promotion&sid=northerntoolcom.com..1355680728678444047951
Content-Length: 0
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:58:48 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive

 

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Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: ...
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: www.jdoqocy.com

... 302 Found
Server: Resin/3.1.8
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Cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:56:30 GMT
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Content-Type: text/html
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:56:30 GMT
Connection: Close
Proxy-Connection: Close

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GET http://www.apmebf.com/ss67gv32L/v16/KJMQRKJO/MMKPSRR/J/J/J?p=kzpk%3Duvy0olyu0vvsjvt.jvt..8ACCDF7E9FDEFBBB7BEGC8%26jt_ttj%3DJQ-_-9CGC7DF-_-AA8DGFF-_-Myll%2BZopwwpun%2BWyvtv0pvu<<o00w%3A%2F%2F333.qkvxvj5.jvt%3AF7%2Fjspjr-AA8DGFF-87AEF87C<<N<< ...
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: ...
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: www.apmebf.com

... 302 Found
Server: Resin/3.1.8
P3P: policyref="http://www.apmebf.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="ALL BUS LEG DSP COR ADM CUR DEV PSA OUR NAV INT"
Cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:56:31 GMT
Location: http://www.qksrv.net/28108y1A9U/18D/RQTXYRQV/TTRWZYY/Q/RHON1YDPSQYTUTTWZTPRTVVWYQVZRSQYPQK/31S34VQ2UX-ZRR3SYRXVQQST-3433X1S?b=pG61%3DBCFH52FBHCC90CA.0CA..PRTTUWOVQWUVWSSSOSVXTP%260A_AA0%3Dah-_-QTXTOUW-_-RRPUXWW-_-dF22%2Bq56DD6B4%2BnFCACH6CB<07C!D2Iz-V7Q8zNG<5HHD%3A%2F%2FKKK.71CEC0M.0CA%3AWO%2F09608-RRPUXWW-PORVWPOT<<e<<
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Content-Type: text/html
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:56:31 GMT
Connection: Close
Proxy-Connection: Close

<html>
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<body>The URL has moved <a href="http://www.qksrv.net/28108y1A9U/18D/RQTXYRQV/TTRWZYY/Q/RHON1YDPSQYTUTTWZTPRTVVWYQVZRSQYPQK/31S34VQ2UX-ZRR3SYRXVQQST-3433X1S?b=pG61%3DBCFH52FBHCC90CA.0CA..PRTTUWOVQWUVWSSSOSVXTP%260A_AA0%3Dah-_-QTXTOUW-_-RRPUXWW-_-dF22%2Bq56DD6B4%2BnFCACH6CB&lt;07C!D2Iz-V7Q8zNG&lt;5HHD%3A%2F%2FKKK.71CEC0M.0CA%3AWO%2F09608-RRPUXWW-PORVWPOT&lt;&lt;e&lt;&lt;">here</a></body></html>

 

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Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: ...
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: www.qksrv.net

... 302 Found
Server: Resin/3.1.8
P3P: policyref="http://www.qksrv.net/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="ALL BUS LEG DSP COR ADM CUR DEV PSA OUR NAV INT"
Cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:56:35 GMT
Location: http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/NTE_CJjump?storeId=6970&langId=-1&url=category_free-shipping&cm_mmc=CJ-_-2595068-_-3316988-_-Free+Shipping+Promotion
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Set-Cookie: S=1szyc8o-2083433693-1355680591208-0v; domain=.qksrv.net; path=/; expires=Fri, 15-Dec-2017 17:56:35 GMT
Set-Cookie: PBLP=1185635:3316988:1355680595364:cjo; domain=.qksrv.net; path=/; expires=Fri, 15-Dec-2017 17:56:35 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:56:35 GMT
Connection: Close
Proxy-Connection: Close

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<body>The URL has moved <a href="http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/NTE_CJjump?storeId=6970&amp;langId=-1&amp;url=category_free-shipping&amp;cm_mmc=CJ-_-2595068-_-3316988-_-Free+Shipping+Promotion">here</a></body></html>