Forum Moderators: phranque
I have been reading these forums since ages, but now i have a questions for you guys which i need to ask.
I work at a company and we see all sort of tricks being applied by our competitors like unwanted advertisement at fake sites etc. however this time its a new problem. There is a website domain ( which is not hosted ) and when clicked copies the whole content form our website, they do this in real time, its not a 301 or 302 redirect or any meta redirect it shows status 200 ok
Their site has all the pr that my company website has along with the same backlinks now, i know 302 redirect is no problem with search engine nowadays, however i am still not sure about this. The website is <snip>, its necessary to post URL as without it its not possible for me to explain this issue and problem.
Please help me out with your suggestions on this. The owner of domain cannot be contacted as they have no contact info or any other information. The registrar is also in switzerland and in no way helping us to stop this.
[edited by: trillianjedi at 2:31 pm (utc) on April 4, 2007]
[edit reason] Please see TOS. Thanks ;) [/edit]
1) Detect their IP address and deny access (request their copy of your site, then look in your logs for the requesting IP address. If it is not your own, then they have set up a proxy).
2) Contact an attorney. Make this 'trick' too expensive for them to continue. (I am not a lawyer; This forum cannot and does not give legal advice).
3) File a DMCA complaint against them at the major search engines, with their hosting company, and with their ISP. Search engines may remove their sites from the search results, their host may take their sites offline, and their ISP may disconnect them; None want to be named in a lawsuit, and will take these actions to protect themselves.
See: WebmasterWorld Classic: Copyright Issues [webmasterworld.com] in the WebmasterWorld Content, Writing and Copyright Library [webmasterworld.com].
Good luck -- The techniques above and in the cited threads can put a stop to this fairly quickly.
Jim
Sounds like excellent advice. I'd say that what they are doing is quite illegal.
I'd recommend all of the above: block them, sue them and report them.
It may be worth it to do a little research to see if they are doing this with other sites. Where there's smoke, there's fire. If you can find other sites they are doing this to, you should contact their admins and see if you can form a "first wives club."
Anyway, for those who have seen the website and replied, please take a further look as there is no information in whois database, nor they are using any hosting services ( if you ping it our websoite IP comes in ), we have contacted the company whose dns appears but they donot seem cooperative enough...
In short there is no contact number and email to get in touch, somehow we found their US contact number through waybackmachine, but no one is picking that phone, any idea how to proceed in such scenario, your help will be greatly appreciated.
My company will also contact a lawyer.
