Highbemcom.com, CJ affiliate 5365408 typosquatting on HighBeam

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

Our crawler requests Highbem.com, a clear typographic error of Highbeam.com. (Notice the omission of a single letter, "a".)

Highbem.com redirects to the Commission Junction click link with affiliate ID 5365408, then to HighBeam. Thus, the user ends up where he expected, and may not notice that anything was wrong. But HighBeam 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 Highbeam.com at no charge to HighBeam.

Highbem.com is a typosquatting domain within the meaning of ACPA and UDRP. If HighBeam 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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Host: highbem.com
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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: /

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:39:57 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Location: http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-5365408-11010110
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 0

GET /click-5365408-11010110 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.jdoqocy.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
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: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:39:57 GMT
Location: http://www.apmebf.com/mn97ox54N/x38/MMLMLMML/QORQPLT/L/L/L?i=y<<7JJF%3A%2F%2FMMM.93EGE2O.2EC%3AYQ%2F2B82A-VTWVUQY-RRQRQRRQ<<g<<
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:39:57 GMT

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<body>The URL has moved <a href="http://www.apmebf.com/mn97ox54N/x38/MMLMLMML/QORQPLT/L/L/L?i=y<<7JJF%3A%2F%2FMMM.93EGE2O.2EC%3AYQ%2F2B82A-VTWVUQY-RRQRQRRQ<<g<<">here</a></body></html>

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Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
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Connection: keep-alive
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HTTP/1.1 302 Found
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Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:39:57 GMT
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Content-Type: text/html
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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:39:57 GMT

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<body>The URL has moved <a href="http://www.emjcd.com/f777uoxwG/ov-/DDCDCDDC/HFIHGCK/C/D8xJqIDBDIFIFIIGFFBDFGLDDLFGKDFHB6o/IHonEFLJGmFHDDqEKEmJKGKrILKFqmoF?r=l<nuz!7wFJ-4qmunwnl-7qwl-4qmunEx7-7H31-4F16o4pn-7los-4pyHqJI-7qzB-4F7JDt0m-tIlv-33tEHzB-uzGK-K2wC969-wA5G-GAnwHF8-7Hor-4F5vpmvm-G8r3-4FK6BtFH-7Gzt-4qnuC1n1-zlrt-4qn7C897-7G07-rwp7l2p-7ql0-IDGzAE4<s440%3A%2F%2F777.uoz1zn9.nzx%3AJB%2Fnwtnv-GEHGFBJ-CCBCBCCB<nuz-CEDDIKH<R<<">here</a></body></html>

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Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
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HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: Resin/3.1.8
P3P: policyref="http://www.emjcd.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: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:39:57 GMT
Location: http://www.highbeam.com/Registration/Registration1?refid=trial&utm_source=cj&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=11010110&utm_campaign=cjlink
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Connection: close
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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:39:57 GMT

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<body>The URL has moved <a href="http://www.highbeam.com/Registration/Registration1?refid=trial&utm_source=cj&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=11010110&utm_campaign=cjlink">here</a></body></html>