Archive.org Caching AdSense Code

Turning into a problem for me

[kokaroach]

Hi,

I haven't seen this talked about here before, but it's creating a minor problem for me.

I had a site and domain a couple years back and lost interest, so I let the domain name expire. The site ran AdSense but at the time I wasn't knowledgable about optimizing the ads so it didn't make much money.

Now, it appears someone has reregistered the domain and went back through the wayback machine at Archive.org. They've copied many of the pages there, along with my adsense code.

I just noticed yesterday that 2 clicks showed up on that old channel.

Whoever owns the domain now is unreachable because of a privacy cloak on their whois info, so I emailed AdSense support saying I don't own the site or domain any more.

Anyway, just a heads up for anyone here who ran adsense on a site and then let it expire. A new registrant of that domain MAY go back through the wayback machine and rebuild the site... and not be smart enough to pull your adsense code off it.

K

[eeek]

If they copied your pages and are in the USA, just send a DMCA take down notice to their web host.

[kartiksh]

Thats interesting. thanks for head up.

[martinibuster]

Privacy cloak can be defeated by writing directly to the registrar. The registrar will forward the mail to whoever registered the domain.

Some registrars charge ten dollars for every piece of mail that is forwarded.

...Cough cough...