Steepandchaeap.com, CJ affiliate 5298772 typosquatting on Steep And Cheap

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

Our crawler requests Steepandchaeap.com, a clear typographic error of steepandcheap.com. (Notice the insertion of an extra "a".)

Steepandchaeap.com redirects to the Commission Junction click link with affiliate ID 5298772, then to the genuine Steep And Cheap site. The video at the bottom of the page shows on-screen displays as the browser followed the redirects.

Thus, the user ends up where he expected, and may not notice that anything was wrong. But Steep And Cheap 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 steepandcheap.com at no charge to Steep And Cheap.

Steepandchaeap.com is a typosquatting domain within the meaning of ACPA and UDRP. If Steep And Cheap 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

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HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
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Content-Length: 0
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:33:02 GMT

 

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HTTP/1.1 302 Found
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:30:40 GMT

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