need help blocking a site

not sure if this is possible

[willeffects]

Hello Everyone,

I split from a partner a few years back, he took the domain I took the assets and rebuilt under a new one. He has now pointed the old domain to a competitors web site. Google however still associates the old domain with searches for my new one -- essentially giving my competitor results by association when people search for our domain name.

The competitor might be willing to help stop google from indexing if its possible to do so in robots.txt. So the question is, is there some way to stop google from indexing the forced domain by using robots.txt?

If not anyone else have any other suggestions of what I can do?

Thanks

[MarkHutch]

I've read your message several times and I don't understand what you're wanting to do. If when you split he got the old domain and you got everything else, then the old domain isn't yours anymore. Are you trying to control the old domain that belongs to your partner? Sorry if I'm missing something here.

[willeffects]

The owner of the old domain is pointing it to a competitor without the competitor's permission. So we are trying to work together to block his domain from pointing to their server with the least amount of work. But of course since this is really an issue of my ex partner being childish they dont want to be inconvenienced, yet realize they are technically getting traffic based on searches for my domain which is unethical.

They are not willing to put any php code or change anything in apache, but they are willing to put something in robots.txt to tell google not to index that domain (if its possible).

Neither myself or my competitor can figure out why google is associating my new domain name with the old one pointing to their site, as their site has no reference to my new domain...

Thanks

[MarkHutch]

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[edited by: MarkHutch at 4:44 am (utc) on Mar. 15, 2005]

[MarkHutch]

Neither myself or my competitor can figure out why google is associating my new domain name with the old one pointing to their site, as their site has no reference to my new domain...

That is strange indeed. This might not have anything to do with your problem, but check out this thread:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[willeffects]

checking it out...

[MarkHutch]

sorry I posted the wrong link. Try again.

[willeffects]

Yeah he could be doing a 302. It's really frustrating to have no recourse even when the competitor is willing to help us out (in a limited fashion). I was just hoping there was an easy way to basically block that domain from being indexed and thus have it drop off google.

I couldn't even find a contact for google to ask about this problem. I know there have been lawsuits won regarding trademarks, which happens be the case we have. The offending search is not only our domain name but a trademarked word we own. But lets face it, who has time to deal with that?

Thanks for any help though, this site has been an awesome resource to me!

[MarkHutch]

You're welcome. One thing is for sure. If he's doing this, you're are much better off not having him as a partner.

[vabtz]

Your upset because the domain which you do not own points to some place you don't want it too?

How is it unethical? Someone else owns the domain, they can do what they want with it.

[willeffects]

Im not upset about where he points the domain, im upset about the fact that is associating my *current* domain name search to his domain which is pointing to a competitor.