RD-- I don't think it's an attack on CCBill, so don't worry about that ;)
refer id is the reseller, NOT the surfer, Fly.
Brother Bill and his minions label cookies originating from the same domain first party and all others third party as I understand it. Where the second parties went to, that's something I am clueless about.
Third party cookies are not accepted by default UNLESS they have some specific privacy policy somewhere that IE6 looks for it.
Now that's about as technical as I can get on the issue without consulting a programmer for the language you want to hear all this in lol.
Here's the link from MS --
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...privacyfaq.asp
One other thing I do know about our cookies tracking system is that we've got some sort of script set to look for sites that are using IFRAMES with their CCBill join page and for surfers that are using IE6 -- if those two things occur we break the CCBill join page out of the frames so the tracking still works as well.
If you've got more technical q's then either post them or email me and I will get you some answers from the programmer in charge of referral tomorrow.
Believe me when I say that neither CCBill nor it's sponsor sites it processes for is trying to keep anyone from getting a penny that's due to them. With all the crazy things going on in this industry right now, the last thing we'd want is to have issues with our clients.