Typosquatting

We were recently approached by the owner of Parkpennies.com and pressedpennies.com (both registered to the same person). They are attempting to typosquat pressedpenny.com or "URI hijack." They used to redirect pressedpennies.com to parkpennies.com.

It's fairly easy for anyone to see how pressedpennies.com is a variation on pressedpenny.com. Just look up registration information with registar.com or your favorite registration tool, and you can see we've been successfully using multiple domains for over a year, along with several subdomains.

Archive.org cache of pressedpennies.com

Two sites completely joined.

Pressedpennies.com IS parkpennies.com.  They just forgot to tell you.

During their attempt (December 2007) to get us to give them domains that have been registered nearly a year now, the claim was made,
"There is no web site at all that redirects to ParkPennies.com. We do have dozens of links to our site, but no redirects overt or covert."

Check the caches above. You can see the progression. There are also still, to this day, redirect pages from pressedpennies.com that, if typed in a browser window, are redirected to parkpennies.com.

The site owner first told, then asked, then threatened us trying to get domains he wants, which link to major keywords that customers search for. Bottom line, we don't give in to extortion.

Update

Parkpennies.com is now running a campaign to try to smear our site, although it seems to just give us more traffic and sales than ever! We couldn't be happier. It seems the adage about typosquatting is true - the more people typosquat you, the busier your site is! We're experiencing quite a bit of additional traffic and sales, directly from parkpennies.com! The bottom line is, don't give in to typosquatters. Find relevant search terms, and buy up domains based on those keywords!

It may feel hard when others resort to extortion or URI hijacking against your site. While we've left it alone, we never approached them, only responded. They harangued us until we said we'd need something of value if we were to give up hard-earned and well-researched domains, which they felt relevant to themselves, at which point they informed us they would tell their site viewers we were trying to extort and hijack them. We've never contacted them trying to sell a domain or domains, in fact, we keep records of search terms and purchase domains based upon those search terms. "Name clouds" are all the rage these days. Next year there will be something else, we're sure. Again, bottom line, if someone wants your domain names, you can be sure it's something good. Don't just give them away! We didn't, and it's made things better than ever for us.