Does anyone know who is behind 123productpages.com?

[medtouch]

I've seen several instances of this domain scraping and rehosting an entire site as a subdomain of 123productpages.com.  I know ReachLocal and YP have used similar techniques, but I can't find any references to 123productpages.com.

Not my client, but a specific example (dermatologist) of what I'm talking about: http://advderm.123productpages.com

[MiriamEllis]

Hey There,

You are right - this does look pretty prevalent but there is very little documentation out there about this entity. I did find this, however:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16222759/preventing-site-being-scraped

I have also asked around a few different places and no one I spoke to knew anything about this entity. Kind of a mystery! Maybe someone in the community will have had an experience with this that they can share. I hope so!

[medtouch]

Yes, I found that article too, but it wasn't real helpful.  I was hoping it was just a SEM/SEO agency using questionable tactics, but it seems like a bigger problem.

Thanks for the help.

[JVRudnick]

dunno who this "is" but you might start if you're doing the detective work with their DNS host - google for -

PUBLISHERGATEWAY.NET and that should get  you started....