I would like to get your take on this I am sure it has 
happened to you. 

A client of ours complained the other day that he 
typed in our domain name, queendom.com and got a pile 
of junk.  It turns out he mistyped the name and put
 quendom.com (forgot the second "e").  I tried it too 
and I panicked when browser  windows started popping up 
one after another, with 'exit scripts' opening more and 
more windows when I tried to close one of them (you 
have to demostrate a mastery of the mouse to be able 
to escape).   The content was obvious porn sites, 
gambling sites or just plain pages with nothing but a 
pile of bannerspromoting reputable business and sold/
served by reputable networks.  Headtennis.com does the 
same thing (the real address of the company is 
http://www.head.com/).  I know that this is widespread 
and happens in various forms on mp3 sites, porn sites 
and other sites that represent "the underbelly of society". 


Apparently, somebody is cashing in on high traffic/
branded domains.  I am concerned about this 
 because: 

1)	Such practice damages our good name

2)	It is results in burning banners at a high rate, 
driving the price of CPM and clicks down, thus affecting 
the whole industry.
 
3)	Somebody without any effort is making money off 
my site.
 
Does anybody know what can be done about this?  How 
widespread is it?  Do you agree that it affects the 
industry in general? 


Ilona Jerabek

Queendom.com


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