Someone pointed domain to my site.

[kenpachi]

Hi, I just launched a site and I found that someone just cut and pasted the whole thing...

I found a site and did a whois, and it seems some other domain is using my IP address, even though it is a dedicated one. I'm not sure if I should email web hosting, domain hosting, as well as the domain hosting they are on.

Is this a common thing, I do have a dedicated ip for my hosting package, and my site is not even indexed in google. I found out by visiting a search engine site called snap.com and did a search and that's how I found out.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

[edited by: mack at 8:30 pm (utc) on Mar. 24, 2008]
[edit reason] no urls thanks [/edit]

[mack]

Did someone simply redirect their domain to your sites IP address?

Did you receive a reply from the other domain registrar regarding this?

Mack.

[kenpachi]

Not yet. Someone is using / pointing their domain to my dedicated IP, so when someone goes to their domain it loads up my site. Maybe it's just a mix up or something with dishing out IP addresses, I have no experience with these issues, so I have to wait and see.

[dbdev]

so www.whatever.tld actually loads your site?

If you are using IIS, the only way this could happen is if you have a host header with that domain name listed on port 80.

Unless the perpitrators copied your site and is hosting it on their servers under their domain...

Might be a hijacking issue too?... need more info.

Check your host headers in IIS... if you're using *nix, I can't help you.

[mack]

On Nix check your httpd.conf file you may have the dimain there as a name based virtual host. This isn't required, it is possible for someone to point a domain to a host using just the IP, some dns providers woudl allow this.

It may be that the owner of the domain has put the wrong IP address into the system when they where forwarding the domain to their own site. I honestly dont see what they can behefit from pointing a domain at your site.

Mack.

[piatkow]

Wait for the thread from the guy who thinks that kenpachi has hijacked his domain name.

[dbdev]

Wait for the thread from the guy who thinks that kenpachi has hijacked his domain name.

Thanks for the afternoon chuckle...