eBay Partner Network - Is Registering Referral Domains Now Required

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Hi Guys,

We have had a bit of a shock this week when doing our monthly reporting regarding eBay Partner Network (EPN).

We do our monthly reporting around 12-16th month for the previous month and when logging into EPN, we noticed that our commissions had significantly dropped.

So looking for a cause of this, we presumed maybe a drop in traffic our sites have been sending to eBay and, well, it's quite normal - about the same as the previous month...

Next - started looking around the EPN account and found the following: Account >> Domains which was never there before.

Quote from EPN:

Use the Domains page to validate your domains for the eBay Partner Network. Validating your domains helps us ensure the eBay Partner Network includes high quality sites and partners. This is a common practice in international affiliate networks.

We have emailed EPN, but our question to OMG is:

Are we now absolutely required to identify which URL or website all traffic comes from?

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