example.com & example.net

Is this a problem?

[customdy]

One of my competitors purchased a new domain name, he previously had example.com and has now duplicated his site to example.net.

Google seems to love this, ranking both sites very high for major search terms.

Is this legal within the "laws" of Google?

If not,why doesn't Google pentalize?

[edited by: ciml at 2:27 pm (utc) on Dec. 2, 2004]
[edit reason] Examplified [/edit]

[walkman]

Google loves it...until you wake up one day and both sites are gone.

[rfgdxm1]

>Google loves it...until you wake up one day and both sites are gone.

It's all kinds of common to duplicate what is at example.com on example.net, example.org, etc. Just point them all to the same data just in case someone forgets the main TLD extension. If that is what this site has done, Google just hasn't yet merged these into one listing.

[vincevincevince]

There is no harm is having two sites with identical content.

But please do not expect BOTH sites to be ranked or indexed indefinately. It is unlikely that NEITHER will be indexed or ranked.

Duplicate content filters are aimed at ensuring that the top 10 results are 10 different documents - not duplicates of each other, which doesn't help the browser at all. They are certainly NOT about penalising sites.