Problem with someone duplicating my site

[kypros]

As the title says, some joker has duplicated my site. However, the way that it was done leaves me unsure of how to fix it.

The person has domains that are not hosted anywhere. The domains simply point to my IP address. In other words, a reverse IP lookup on my (dedicated) IP address reveals 14 domains associated with the IP number instead of just my domain.

So if my site is aaa.com, there are domains out there of bbb.com, ccc.com, ddd.com, etc... that when loaded are just loading my content.

After speaking to Hostmonster support they sent me a link to this site:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess14.shtml

There are similar sites here:

http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles7/blocking-referrer-traffic.htm
http://www.htaccesstools.com/block-hitbots/


So I tried doing this to block out the offending domains. I tried the code from the first link above first and it did not block my content from the offending domains. It did stop all images from working on bbb.com, ccc.com, etc... but not the text.

Below is my htaccess file after I put in the code. (The format of the code is from the third site that I wrote above.) The first 4 lines of the file were already there.


<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?bbb.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?ccc.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?ddd.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?eee.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?fff.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?ggg.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?hhh.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?iii.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]


As mentioned, this has prevented the loading of any images on the other sites(and in my Cubecart admin as well). My site is working fine and always has been throughout this.

But how can I prevent any and all content going to these bogus domains? Any help would be appreciated.


-K

[r2b2]

Do you have a dedicated IP address or are you just using the shared IP? If using the shared IP, I can't see how it would work as I would expect that Hostmonster's Apache config would only be configured to display aaa.com and not bbb.com etc.

[kypros]

I have a dedicated IP.

[r2b2]

That (probably) explains it... you might want to try writing to the domain registrar who holds the domains that are pointing at your stuff and explain the situation - they may disable the domain or something?

[daren]

wow..i wonder how they do that!! Terrible!

I don't think writing to the domain owner will help since he or she already been doing those copying stuff. Anyway how can this happen in the first place? they use the same "server name" as yours? How about getting a privacy protection?

[r2b2]

wow..i wonder how they do that!! Terrible!

I don't think writing to the domain owner will help since he or she already been doing those copying stuff. Anyway how can this happen in the first place? they use the same "server name" as yours? How about getting a privacy protection?

I didn't say to write to the domain owner - I said to write to the company who is providing the domain name to the person doing the "copying".

All that the person who is "copying" needs to do is find the IP address of the site and then add a DNS entry that points their domain at that IP address.

Note that this probably wouldn't work on a shared IP address due to the way that Apache would be set up....