Meaning you get a commission from a referrals all future purchases. Almost all Webhosting companies have affiliate or reseller programs. If you refer a customer you get a monthly cut of their monthly hosting bill. Commission Junction have 170 merchants and bundles all commissions from their merchants into one single check. It gives the webmaster an immediate gratification and also gives room for long term income.
Lets make it simple.
Commission Junctions model is very promising though and you have to add the clickthrough, the signup bounty and your own sales to get the correct picture. One of the reasons we havent seen this so much yet also has to do with a couple of things. The majority of affiliate programs today are geared towards consumers not businesses. There are not many monthly renewable services marketed through affiliate programs as of yet. I think you already know that we are not an affiliate program directory.