Someone copied my website. I don't know what to do about it.

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Originally Posted by Mike-XS

I'm curious, did someone just copy the contents of the site or is it an exact mirror of the site through a proxy etc ? Has anyone checked personally ?

I'm interested in this as I have been dealing with some targeted google proxy hijacks against my own sites, and it seems this practice is still being used to target sites and still ignored by google as it was a few years ago.

It's an exact mirror of the website :( Have sent an email to the host already though, but so far no response.

Looks like the same Google Proxy hijack problem we have going here. I added a few things in there at the end to help protect against this attack:
http://www.netbuilders.org/promoting...ies-11641.html

Start by blocking the IP addressess of those sites in your htaccess.

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deny from 74.86.97.208
deny from 209.59.141.202

This guy has a lot of sites/webhosts and he'll probably move around when he notices his rip off site doesn't work anymore, so we'll need to keep an eye on him. Keep an eye on your logs maybe for fake google bots.

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Registrant Name:Keith Blaisdell
Registrant Street1:6020 128th St E
Registrant City:Puyallup
Registrant State/Province:WA
Registrant Postal Code:98373
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.2066663542
Registrant FAX:+1.2066663542
Registrant Email:one_kgb@yahoo.com

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one_kgb@yahoo.com is a contact on the whois record of 421 domains

He's into proxies too. Probably reads this forum, I know he reads DP.. Hi Keith.

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hidestuff.info
Registrant Name:Keith Blaisdell
Name Server:PROXYNS1.TMZHOSTING.COM
Name Server:PROXYNS2.TMZHOSTING.COM

His proxy domains for sale:

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gotmydomains.com/?cat=4

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Registrant:
GotMyDomains.com (Website)
P. O. Box 1159
Auburn, WA 98002
US

Registrar: DOTREGISTRAR
Domain Name: GOTMYDOMAINS.COM
http://www.robtex.com/dns/gotmydomains.com.html
Created on: 26-JAN-01
Expires on: 26-JAN-10
Last Updated on: 01-SEP-09

Administrative, Technical Contact:
Blaisdell, Keith sales@gotmydomains.com
GotMyDomains.com (Website)
P. O. Box 1159
Auburn, WA 98002
US
206663542
2066663542

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.KNKHOSTING.COM
NS2.KNKHOSTING.COM
NS3.KNKHOSTING.COM

The bafree stuff is hosted in yemen, and I found more mirrored sites hosted there under other names while I was looking into your site.

From what I've read sending DMCA notices might not apply to this kind of content stealing and could possibly bring you more trouble.. Only one way to find out.

Take a look at this webmaster world thread, it's a bit old but something to start with:
Proxy Hijack - Now what should I do ?
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3306064.htm

The best way to deal with this on a longterm basis is to get a good security setup on your site which can verify search engines and block proxies, scrapers, bots and fake googlebots etc.

Thanks a lot man! Will.Spencer posted a thread something with a robots.txt file to block these kind of bots etc.. will look for it and post it here ;)

Thanks a lot! Really!