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Domain hijacked and then original site cloned to sell drugs... advice on what to do?
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Professional Poster
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I'm writing on behalf of a friend.
He owns a website and sells scanned copies of a magazine he used to publish. The original site was at www . nibblemagazine . com.
Well, his registrar forgot to renew the registration (they were supposed to take care of it for him) and it got snapped up by some registrar in (I think) Russia? Anyway, he called his registrar and they weren't able to get the domain back. He registered nibblemagazine . net instead and continued about his business.
But the people who stole his .com domain name then put up a copy of his original site and sprinkled links to buy and sell prescription drugs, etc. among the pages.
It's HIS reputation on the line now. What can he do? If the scammers are overseas, he probably can't sue them. Someone searching for Nibble Magazine on Google will get the hacked pages and not the legitimate ones.
Can he contact the search engines and get his old domain blacklisted so that legitimate searches get directed to his .net address?
What other recourse does he have?
Constructive comments ONLY. (i.e. no comments like "he should have been on the ball and renewed the domain in time, etc." That won't help a darn thing).
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Last edited by Person Man; Jul 24, 2007 at 03:49 PM.
Reason: Darn URL autoreplace.)
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Contact ICANN? I really would like to know also because this is one of those areas that a lot of people get screwed by.
One question: was the registrar ICANN approved?
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i just looked up both domains, and for me the exact same page shows
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Originally Posted by blackstar 
i just looked up both domains, and for me the exact same page shows
Scroll down on the .com page. You'll see a list of links that say:
" phendimetrazine without prescription :: phentermine without prescription :: propecia without prescription :: prozac without prescription :: soma without prescription :: tramadol without prescription :: ultram without prescription :: valium without prescription :: viagra without prescription :: vicodin without prescription :: wellbutrin without prescription :: xanax without prescription :: xenical without prescription"
and others that say "online gambling :: casino gambling"
They copied his site wholesale and inserted their links on the front page only. If he updates his real site, the copy won't get updated.
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I have no suggestions but I am sorry that this happened to your friend. What a bunch of assholes.
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Dude, I just scored me a case of Vicoden. Sweet. Thanks for the link.
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Originally Posted by ort888
Dude, I just scored me a case of Vicoden. Sweet. Thanks for the link.
Ha. Ha.
Jerk.
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I'm pretty sure copyright law exists in Russia as well if your friend wants to pursue that. At any rate, I'd report the site to Google, because Google kind of frowns upon such pages and has been known to downrank them.
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Go after the company that forgot to register the domain?
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Find out who's hosting the site. If the web hosting business that's hosting that site is legitimate enough, drop them an email informing them that they're hosting a site that's infringing on copyright and such. Web hosts take a dim view of that. In my experience, 95% of the time they get in touch with the offender and read them the riot act.
It's a start anyway, but if the host is in Russia or something you may have to take a crash course in Russian.
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I agree - contact webhost.
If the webhost is outside the US - I'm afraid you're pretty screwed....
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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If he has money, and it's important enough to him, he can hire an attorney to go after the domain name through ICANN (as someone else said) or WIPO.
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Actually, the new owners of the domain mimicking your friends site might be a good thing. Because his site if infringing on your friend's intellectual property, you may be able take ownership the domain as part of legal proceedings.
(Edit: I am no lawyer though.)
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