I am working on a startup called KMSurvival[1] - a tool intended for cancer researchers generating Kaplan Meier Survival Curves. We just pushed out the 2.0 version of our website yesterday and I was just googling around checking how it ranked (very poorly) when I saw that there was a website called codemonkeyjava.com that was an EXACT duplicate of our site. It even said (c) KMSurvival. It seems that even the server requests to generate the curve are going to their own back end.<p>What can I do about this and is this something I should be worried about? There is a whois record with a person's name and email address, would that help?
You haven't posted the real domain so I can't check but try pinging the clone's domain and make sure it isn't pointing to your server's IP. It may just be a domain that belonged to the previous owner of your server's IP.
One of our client's websites was recently cloned and hosted on the back of a hacked .org TLD. The cloned site immediately trumped our client's website in rankings and severely impacted their SEO (sales dropped drastically). The sneaky part was that the cloned site was only displayed to GoogleBot and normal users were redirected to a website in China selling fakes. Google support were completely unresponsive and didn't understand the problem. In the end we just blocked the scraping website's IP address from accessing our site - unfortunately sales were affected for over a week.
I just checked both sites, they are both up, the fake codemonkey site and the real kmsurvival.com.<p>neither show up on the first 3 google pages for "km survival" or "kmsurvival". I have to google kmsurvival.com to get you to come up on the first google page. you have some seo to do. good news is the fake site never came up on any of the searches above.
Partially related: I had a personal blog and after 8 years or so, I let the domain expire.<p>After a month it was not only bought, but replaced with an identical mirror outdated of circa 2 years. Even the infinite scrolling js was working.<p>They replaced all the adsense with their own ads, and put textlinks inside the posts (usually sex/abuse related keywords).<p>Not knowing what to do, I just reported it to google (and that led to no appreciable result).<p>Luckily it went away after a bunch of months (the domain is still there, but the website does not load nor it appears to be indexed in google any more)<p>Needless to say, being the website domain my real name, I felt pretty embarrassed about it. :)
do a<p>dig codemonkeyjava.com or kmsurvival.com<p>=> both domains point to the same ip.<p>=> this seems to be a problem of the webservers vhost configuration.<p>cheers
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