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Why would someone do this?
| Posted by The Rover, 02-12-2010, 02:20 AM |
| I have a unique situation, (unique at least to me) where it's been brought to our attention that someone has apparently pointed their A entry for their domain, to ours. This is making it appear as if they ripped our design. if you ping their site, our i.p. address is shown. I sent a ticket to our host and below is was their response.
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It seems that they are just pointing the site to '********.com' to make it appear as if they have the files. That is, they just pointed the A record of the site '******.org' to the IP address **.***.*.19.
Please let us know how to proceed further.
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So I guess I'm simply wanting some insight and/or feedback as to why someone would do this, what this means (their intent) and how to prevent this from happening.
Thanks!
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| Posted by styx, 02-12-2010, 02:24 AM |
| Its not unique. I have heard many times about it.
Simple email domain registrar and explain the situation. Include this: Domain owner does not respond to any contacts in whois record under the domain name.
As we all know ICANN requires to keep domain contact info up-to-date.
Thanks.
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| Posted by Slitheryimp, 02-12-2010, 02:25 AM |
| It's most likely a tactic attempting to get you penalised for duplicate content.
Just 301 redirect all requests for strangersdomain.com to yourdomain.com
Last edited by Slitheryimp; 02-12-2010 at 02:27 AM.
Reason: extra info added
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| Posted by FrankLaszlo, 02-12-2010, 02:28 AM |
| Just setup mod_rewrite to catch the other domain and point it to a site/page of your choice. Maybe something like this:
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| Posted by The Rover, 02-12-2010, 03:33 AM |
| Wouldn't their domain be the one penalized seeing our site has been up and indexed long before they did this?
Thanks! So would I need to set this up for every page coming from their domain or just their base url?
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| Posted by Slitheryimp, 02-12-2010, 06:37 AM |
| You would think so, yes. But it doesn't always work out that way, here are some discussions on the subject:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3928124.htm
http://www.webmasterworld.com/supporters/4066880.htm (only for WMW supporters)
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| Posted by bear, 02-12-2010, 08:30 AM |
| In the RewriteRule portion, you don't escape anything on the second half of the statement. It may contain back references, but should not have escaping or be "quoted".
Here's some examples: http://tomclegg.net/rewriterule
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| Posted by FrankLaszlo, 02-12-2010, 11:30 AM |
| Hmm, I've always thought it needed to be escaped. It works either way apparently. Thanks.
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| Posted by FrankLaszlo, 02-12-2010, 11:31 AM |
| Just put it in your top level .htaccess file. If they link to any file using that domain name, it will automatically redirect to the URL/file of your choice.
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| Posted by stdunbar, 02-12-2010, 12:50 PM |
| I had this happen to me also. I created a virtual host for this domain and a small landing page. The landing page just said that the real owner of the domain was a moron. It took several weeks before it went away.
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| Posted by TheSimpleHost-Nathan, 02-12-2010, 01:27 PM |
| Should have put a big page up explaining the situation, then forwarding people to your domain .
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| Posted by The Rover, 02-12-2010, 03:26 PM |
| Thanks everyone for your input and help. It looks like I will do this. I actually tried contatcing the registrar and they refuse to do anything about, despite thier customer not even abiding my ICANN regulations of having accurate contact information in the public whois. The nameservers that this individual's domain is on, is NAME-SERVICES.COM. Can anyone here confirm whione?
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| Posted by Xous, 02-13-2010, 04:53 AM |
| Hi,
This happens all the time. Usually it's not malicious but someone has probably had the IP before you and never bothered removing the DNS records.
Either redirect the user or don't have your site as the default virtual host. I'd setup a 301 redirect and take the extra traffic .
Edit:
NAME-SERVICES.COM belongs to Enom, iirc.
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