Tigerdirecgt.com, Cheap-kingdom/Cheap-universe, LinkShare affiliate 7uqPrVRovcE typosquatting on TigerDirect

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

Our crawler requests Tigerdirecgt.com, a clear typographic error of Tigerdirect. (The only insertion is the accidental insertion of the letter "g", diagonally adjacent to the intended next letter "t".)

Tigerdirecgt redirects to Cheap-kingdom, then to the LinkShare click link with affiliate ID 7uqPrVRovcE, then to TigerDirect. The video at the bottom of the page shows on-screen displays as the browser followed the redirects.

The user ends up where he expected, and may not notice that anything was wrong. But TigerDirect 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 TigerDirect at no charge to TigerDirect.

Tigerdirecgt is a typosquatting domain within the meaning of ACPA and UDRP. If TigerDirect 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/1.1
Host: tigerdirecgt.com
User-Agent: ...
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Connection: close
Pragma: no-cache
cache-control: no-cache
Location: /

 

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: tigerdirecgt.com
User-Agent: ...
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:50:14 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Location: http://cheap-kingdom.us/store/electronics/top-brands-low-prices-1.php
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 0

 

GET /store/electronics/top-brands-low-prices-1.php HTTP/1.1
Host: cheap-kingdom.us
User-Agent: ...
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:50:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora)
Location: http://cheap-kingdom.us/test/gateway.new.php?vuri=/store/electronics/top-brands-low-prices-1.php
Content-Length: 361
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://cheap-kingdom.us/test/gateway.new.php?vuri=/store/electronics/top-brands-low-prices-1.php">here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora) Server at cheap-kingdom.us Port 80</address>
</body></html>

 

GET /test/gateway.new.php?vuri=/store/electronics/top-brands-low-prices-1.php HTTP/1.1
Host: cheap-kingdom.us
User-Agent: ...
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:50:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6
Content-Length: 369
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

<html>
<body>

<form name="frmDC" method="get" action="http://cheap-universe.us/store/electronics/top-brands-low-prices-1.php">
<script language="JavaScript">document.frmDC.submit();</script></form>

<noscript>
<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http://cheap-universe.us/store/electronics/top-brands-low-prices-1.php">
</noscript>

</body>
</html>

 

GET /store/electronics/top-brands-low-prices-1.php HTTP/1.1
Host: cheap-universe.us
User-Agent: ...
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://cheap-kingdom.us/test/gateway.new.php?vuri=/store/electronics/top-brands-low-prices-1.php

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:50:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6
Expires: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:50:14 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
location: http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=7uqPrVRovcE&offerid=102327.10000025&type=3&subid=0
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

 

GET /fs-bin/click?id=7uqPrVRovcE&offerid=102327.10000025&type=3&subid=0 HTTP/1.1
Host: click.linksynergy.com
User-Agent: ...
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://cheap-kingdom.us/test/gateway.new.php?vuri=/store/electronics/top-brands-low-prices-1.php
Cookie: lsn_statp=ieohzgsAAADv*kp4U1OlTg%3D%3D; lsn_track=UmFuZG9tSVZZr4Q4geTAscPQ8iRv2G%2BzpoQzckgSGEooj5j5KMrB36pwMzli1jZON2NRWARd2ZVBZyhcQ%2BHySw%3D%3D; lsclick_mid2043="2012-12-16 22:20:46.901|F5lBUiZGJtA-%2Fw0fcKvIuEzHQrW%2FcuTduw"; lsclick_mid2194="2012-01-29 02:21:54.060|%2A7WaaTN6umc-C3elA1otT5ur3k3FowbVqQ"; lsclick_mid2762="2011-02-19 16:15:44.584|Os794cZXkMY-MrbZnRZuaj8iceDZHluBtA"; lsclick_mid24395="2011-12-03 22:26:10.324|.7WaaTN6umc-..BwT9zkdzyVMetX3E1HLg"; lsclick_mid2291="2011-04-29 20:49:51.902|PPkX79_c.b0-0ZuxOxs6riuF2WITzg7tyw"; lsclick_mid36889="2011-09-09 02:55:28.022|9MluS_OKjzA-kbBAsMIV3dHTcZw4cl7dew"; lsclick_mid36306="2011-10-16 00:09:01.737|o3C05A3QfdE-o87MjMeyBWBW1xmj3eQ4ZA"; lsclick_mid1493="2011-10-19 05:20:19.074|AdXGf6uZPBc-QpzuH6ipqy8uQgYyIrdOPg"; lsclick_mid14028="2012-02-27 16:19:17.475|.7WaaTN6umc-6JPuGQkhDssQTlDbVRmmCA"; lsclick_mid2101="2012-04-03 04:44:40.463|jiJMTUGNdew-FvVXNEmlThvoHhZwv9hh2Q"; lsclick_mid3002="2012-10-02 04:34:42.387|460ZqjZAjsk-6mFLdxK10Cdekw5Qr.WVaw"; lsclick_mid24918="2012-10-02 04:34:42.401|460ZqjZAjsk-jmj3fYOBhGPtzUzXxttI_w"; lsclick_mid2417="2012-10-02 04:34:42.451|460ZqjZAjsk-8K1AZVvju0oQv5ABU9c6UQ"; lsclick_mid37579="2012-10-09 03:22:17.186|GxuwuM_9bZw-TEJOOV7sI7ogd4ThhFOJDw"; lsclick_mid36345="2012-10-28 22:09:55.816|8v0PlJsGLKo-id.ETcsMVmF6BUazG.LwAg"; lsclick_mid36316="2012-12-16 22:34:56.144|s4ViB12wRJw-gI9foNqkL79fqYi7CNoj1g"

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Set-Cookie: lsn_statp=ieohzgsAAADv*kp4U1OlTg%3D%3D; Domain=.linksynergy.com; Expires=Wed, 15-Dec-2032 04:50:18 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: lsn_qstring=7uqPrVRovcE%3A272649%3A; Domain=.linksynergy.com; Expires=Fri, 21-Dec-2012 04:50:18 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: lsn_track=UmFuZG9tSVbwxdzpDvH1n0OVF5yp42NO6jiNk4WWlq0pl%2FSXD%2BsuFRUIMOooHHN2yZYCUxz%2FjEK1adXSIADypQ%3D%3D; Domain=.linksynergy.com; Expires=Sun, 18-Dec-2022 04:50:18 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: lsclick_mid14028="2012-12-20 04:50:18.727|7uqPrVRovcE-ge0e62j8EEpGpWVJAufq0Q"; Domain=.linksynergy.com; Expires=Sat, 20-Dec-2014 04:50:18 GMT; Path=/
P3P: policyref="/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="NOI DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa OUR BUS STA"
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:50:18 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Location: http://www.tigerdirect.com/index.asp?SRCCODE=LINKSHARE&cm_mmc_o=-ddCjC1bELltzywCjC-d2CjCdwwp&AffiliateID=7uqPrVRovcE-ge0e62j8EEpGpWVJAufq0Q
Content-Length: 0
Cneonction: close

 

 

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