Parkplza.com, Avenueshop, CJ affiliate 2450041 typosquatting on Parkplaza.com

Twenty Oft-Found Commission Junction and LinkShare Affiliate Violations - Wesley Brandi and Ben Edelman

Our crawler requests Parkplza.com, a clear typographic error of Parkplaza.com. (Notice the omitted "a".)

Parkplza.com redirects to Avenueshop, then (after two JavaScript 50ms delays, blue highlighting) to the CJ click link with affiliate ID 2450041, then to Parkplaza.com. The video at the bottom of the page shows on-screen displays as the browser followed the redirects.

The user ends up where he expected, and may not notice that anything was wrong. But Park Plaza has to pay an affiliate fee for this traffic. Meanwhile, were it not for this affiliate's action, a standard web browser would have offered a simple link to Parkplaza.com at no charge to Park Plaza.

Parkplza.com is a typosquatting domain within the meaning of ACPA and UDRP. If Park Plaza were to challenge this domain, it could recover statutory damages (ACPA) as well as the domain itself (under both ACPA and UDRP).

Violations: Forced click, typosquatting

Packet log

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: parkplza.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:40:38 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10
Set-Cookie: _CNT_00000003427=%241%24GB9dEdC7%241wgfxFuxkPYWlY.AN3PSh0; path=/
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: parkplaza.avenueshop.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://parkplza.com/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:40:39 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10
Set-Cookie: _CNT_00000003458=%241%24z4GH9a.q%24hKJhF%2Fn9qms.2q2gE87Va1; path=/
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

GET /parkplaza.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.avenueshop.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://parkplaza.avenueshop.com/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:40:39 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

GET /click-2450041-10810654 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.anrdoezrs.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: Resin/3.1.8
P3P: policyref="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="ALL BUS LEG DSP COR ADM CUR DEV PSA OUR NAV INT"
Cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:40:42 GMT
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Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:40:42 GMT

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<body>The URL has moved <a href="http://www.apmebf.com/gt97dlutB/lsx/A9HA9FED/BDE99DA/9/9/9?d=z<<1DD9%3A%2F%2FGGG.u7Bx8yJBC.7yD%3ASK%2Fw52w4-MOPKKOL-LKSLKQPO<<a<<">here</a></body></html>

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Host: www.apmebf.com
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Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
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HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: Resin/3.1.8
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Cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:40:42 GMT
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Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:40:42 GMT

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HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: Resin/3.1.8
P3P: policyref="http://www.emjcd.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="ALL BUS LEG DSP COR ADM CUR DEV PSA OUR NAV INT"
Cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:40:42 GMT
Location: http://www.parkplaza.com/facilitators.do?facilitatorId=CJ&s_cid=af.cj.carlson&siteId=10810654-2450041-
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:40:42 GMT

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<body>The URL has moved <a href="http://www.parkplaza.com/facilitators.do?facilitatorId=CJ&s_cid=af.cj.carlson&siteId=10810654-2450041-">here</a></body></html>

Parkplza.com, Avenueshop, CJ affiliate 2450041 typosquatting on Parkplaza.com

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