Typo Squatting – Did Adbumb Frame Their Site or Get Framed?

It was just two months ago that I hailed the announcement, ADBUMb to Ban Spyware & Spam Ads.

At the time, I’d held Pesach and company as a bastion of integrity in online marketing. I figured it was a good thing that they had discovered their collective conscience and were willing to sacrifice ad dollars.

So I couldn’t believe my eyes when I came across http://www.affilaitesummit.com/ – a typo squat of AffiliateSummit.com that frames the Adbumb site.

The domain was registered April 25, 2005 for a period of three years to:

Registrant:
ADBUMB INC (THLIERSHVD)
928 Broadway
Suite 200
New York, NY 10010
US

Domain Name: AFFILAITESUMMIT.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
ADBUMB INC (38544221O)
928 Broadway
Suite 200
New York, NY 10010
US
212-777-6778

Record expires on 25-Apr-2008.
Record created on 25-Apr-2005.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS43.WORLDNIC.COM 216.168.228.24
NS44.WORLDNIC.COM 216.168.225.174

How very random. The domain was registered on the heels of our spreading the word about the new Affiliate Summit Real Deal newsletter.

Could it be that Adbumb is framing their site with a typo squat of AffiliateSummit.com (home of a new online marketing newsletter), or is somebody trying to frame them?