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title: BrandVerity's Trademark, Brand Protection, & Compliance Blog (26)
description: BrandVerity's Trademark, Brand Protection, & Compliance Blog (26)
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## [Affiliate Toolbar Profiles now available in BrandVerity](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/871/affiliate-toolbar-profiles-now-available-in-brandverity/)

Affiliate marketers are known to have several strategies for increasing revenue- some of which are labeled as ‘black hat’ tactics and others as the more responsible ‘white hat’. However not all affiliate behaviors are so easily sorted into one of these categories, as is the case with Affiliate Toolbars.

[See Full Post](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/871/affiliate-toolbar-profiles-now-available-in-brandverity/)

[keegan.runnals](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/author/keeganrunnals)

Jun 19, 2012

## [Come find us at Internet Retailer](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/868/come-find-us-at-internet-retailer/)

We're excited to attend the Internet Retailer conference this year! The annual event will be held in Chicago from June 5-8. Stop by booth #357 or drop us a [note](https://www.brandverity.com/contact/) if you'd like to schedule some time.

[See Full Post](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/868/come-find-us-at-internet-retailer/)

[David Naffziger](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/author/david-naffziger)

May 25, 2012

## [BrandVerity is now on Facebook](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/787/brandverity-is-now-on-facebook/)

We are happy to announce we are on Facebook! Find out more about us, browse, or like us at [http://www.facebook.com/BrandVerity](http://www.facebook.com/BrandVerity).

[See Full Post](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/787/brandverity-is-now-on-facebook/)

[sam.polak](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/author/sampolak)

May 15, 2012

## [FatWallet Cash Back Fraudsters Plead Guilty to Nordstrom Wire Fraud](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/773/fatwallets-role-in-nordstroms-affiliate-fraud-issue/)

**Updated**

[See Full Post](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/773/fatwallets-role-in-nordstroms-affiliate-fraud-issue/)

[sam.polak](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/author/sampolak)

Apr 13, 2012

## [Pinterest and Affiliate Disclosure](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/768/pinterest-and-affiliate-disclosure/)

The past few weeks have found the internet’s hottest new social media site, [Pinterest](http://www.pinterest.com/), embroiled in a controversy regarding affiliate marketing and proper affiliate disclosure. Although Pinterest [responded yesterday](http://llsocial.com/2012/02/pinterest-adds-disclosure-and-info-from-ceo/) to the controversy and changed their disclosure policy, we still wanted to give our clients and followers our take on the story and point them towards resources to learn more.

[See Full Post](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/768/pinterest-and-affiliate-disclosure/)

[Jennie Scholick](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/author/jennie-scholick)

Feb 17, 2012

## [ISPs and Paxfire Hijack Searches on Popular Brands [Updated]](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/743/isps-and-paxfire-hijack-searches-on-popular-brands/)

On Thursday, August 4, [New Scientist](http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20768-us-internet-providers-hijacking-users-search-queries.html) and the [Electronic Frontier Foundation](http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/widespread-search-hijacking-in-the-us), together with researchers at the [International Computer Science Institute](http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/) at UC Berkeley, broke the news that ISPs representing ~2% of US users were using a company called Paxfire to actively redirect searches on Google, Bing, and Yahoo!. This announcement comes on the heels of two recent [academic](http://www.usenix.org/event/leet11/tech/full_papers/Zhang.pdf) [papers](http://www.icir.org/christian/publications/2011-satin-netalyzr.pdf) that noted a series of DNS-based redirections of web search requests at the same group of ISPs, including RCN, Frontier, and Hughes, but were unable to identify the culprit.

[See Full Post](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/743/isps-and-paxfire-hijack-searches-on-popular-brands/)

[Jennie Scholick](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/author/jennie-scholick)

Aug 9, 2011

## [PoachMark Now Decrypts Pepperjam Affiliate Links](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/720/poachmark-now-decrypts-pepperjam-affiliate-links/)

At BrandVerity we constantly attempt to make finding and contacting abusive affiliates easier for our clients. One hurdle that often stands in the way of easily discovering an affiliate’s identity is the use of encrypted links. Many networks offer their affiliates the option of encrypting their links to hide their affiliate IDs, meaning that for a client to discover who exactly is behind a link we find, they need to contact the network and have them decrypt it. 

We’ve been hard at work figuring out ways of decrypting these links for our clients so that they can contact abusive affiliates from within PoachMark. We[ previously announced](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/326/poachmark-decrypts-commission-junction-encrypted-links/) our ability to decrypt Commission Junction’s links and are excited to add Pepperjam to that list.

[See Full Post](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/720/poachmark-now-decrypts-pepperjam-affiliate-links/)

[Jennie Scholick](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/author/jennie-scholick)

Aug 4, 2011

## [Networks Adopting Blackhat Tactics [Updated]](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/712/networks-adopting-blackhat-tactics/)

Last week, Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student at the [Stanford Institute for Internet and Society](http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu), released a [blog post](http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6695) reporting that [Epic Marketplace](http://www.epicmarketplace.com/index.php), a major US advertising network and member of the [Network Advertising Initiative](http://networkadvertising.org/) (NAI), is history stealing via the CSS history hack. This declaration has instigated an ongoing conversation in the internet security and advertising worlds about the ethics and legality surrounding these tactics, especially once users have opted-out or activated Do Not Track. We find this discussion particularly interesting as we’ve seen these methods used by the blackhat affiliates that we monitor on a daily basis.

[See Full Post](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/712/networks-adopting-blackhat-tactics/)

[Jennie Scholick](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/author/jennie-scholick)

Aug 1, 2011

[![](https://www.brandverity.com/hs-fs/file-3494017181-jpg/blog-files/nexus1adspace-300x291.jpg) ](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/638/google-mobile-targeted-by-affiliate-hijackers/)

## [Google Mobile Targeted by Affiliate Hijackers](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/638/google-mobile-targeted-by-affiliate-hijackers/)

Part of the agenda of an affiliate hijacker is to always stay one step ahead of merchants by continuously exploiting new methods of hiding fraudulent ads and avoiding detection. Here at BrandVerity, our goal is to stay one step ahead of them, providing increasingly sophisticated forms of monitoring and management to our clients.

[See Full Post](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/638/google-mobile-targeted-by-affiliate-hijackers/)

[Jennie Scholick](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/author/jennie-scholick)

Jul 21, 2011

## [Google Bans co.cc from its Search Results](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/608/google-bans-co-cc-from-its-search-results/)

In the last week, Google removed approximately 11,000,000 websites from their organic search results: all websites with co.cc domains. This decision on the part of Google to remove all websites with that domain name has received a fair amount of press from news outlets like the [SF Chronicle](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/07/06/businessinsider-google-blasts-an-entire-domain-from-its-search-results-for-being-too-spammy-2011-7.DTL) and the [Register](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/06/google_cans_11m_dot_co_dot_cc_sites/), as well as much discussion by Google users on the [Google Help Forums](http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=10735eb11a40c0c8&hl=en). More specifically, Oliver Fisher on the Google Online Security Blog and Matt Cutts on Google+ have commented upon the excessive amount of malware, spam, and low-quality sites housed on bulk subdomain providers like co.cc as reasons for the removal of these sites. Their posts can be found [here](http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/06/protecting-users-from-malware-hosted-on.html) and [here](https://plus.google.com/u/0/109412257237874861202/posts/eanXpZKMDSf#109412257237874861202/posts/eanXpZKMDSf) along with user comments discussing the decision.

[See Full Post](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/608/google-bans-co-cc-from-its-search-results/)

[Jennie Scholick](https://www.brandverity.com/blog/author/jennie-scholick)

Jul 13, 2011

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