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While pay-per-click sites remain a large part of the cybersquatting business model, there is another wave of massive-scale online infringement monetization called affiliate fraud that often goes undetected, according to a new whitepaper released by FairWinds Partners.

FairWinds Partners, a domain name strategy consulting firm based in Washington, DC, analyzed this monetization practice, which can garner 5.6 times the revenue than that of a pay-per-click model on the same Web site. An average typo used to pull off this sort of affiliate fraud against a top Internet retailer's brand generates $100,000 in cost to the brand annually.
Some companies offer legitimate affiliate programs that allow third-party Web site owners to post links and banners with the company's branded content on their site or to send traffic to the company's site directly through domain forwards.
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