Someone copied by blog and created a new site

A web domain has copied every bit from my blog and created his own site.

What are the options available for me to get him remove the content ?

I know his domain name but not the email address.

 

What is the URL of your blog and his blog?

 

Here are a couple of positive steps you could take:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/copyright/copyright.html

https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=9894&topic=145

 

Talk to the domain registrar and let them know. Contact their abuse department.

 

Send him nice email to remove the content because it is illegal. I did that when some forum owner just copied my history timelines into the posts and he removed it next day.

 

how to I find the domain registrar ? Is it available in the whois info ?

 

amit : Email him first. It is the best way. Don't go official right away. Settle this down with him and if he don't want to remove it then go official with his hosting company

 

Thanks iatbm but the issue is that there's no way I can find his email address.

 

Do you not want to share the URLs?

 

amit : he must have contact on his blog ?

 

Why aren't you sharing the urls of the site and the rip?

 

Do a whois search using one of those whois tools out there. Here's a good one: http://whois.domaintools.com

If it's not a privately reg domain, there should be an email address.

 

What are the options that I have now ?

I contacted the domain owner via email and he responded saying that not he but I copied his content. That's strange because his domain is just a month old and my site is about 3 years old. Here's his reply:

Anyway, I think I must disclose the details now and then request for your options:

My Website is http://labnol.blogspot.com

It's mirrored by someone here: labnol.com

Here's the whois record of this site: http://whois.domaintools.com/labnol.com

Registrant:
Contactprivacy.com
96 Mowat Ave
Toronto, ON M6K 3M1
CA

Domain name: LABNOL.COM

Administrative Contact:
contactprivacy.com, Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by Whois Source
96 Mowat Ave
Toronto, ON M6K 3M1
CA
+1.4165385457
Technical Contact:
contactprivacy.com, Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by Whois Source
96 Mowat Ave
Toronto, ON M6K 3M1
CA
+1.4165385457


Registration Service Provider:
iPowerWeb, Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by Whois Source
888 511 4678
602-307-5438 (fax)
http://IPOWER.com
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.


Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 14-May-2006.
Record expires on 12-May-2007.
Record created on 12-May-2006.

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.BRINKSTER.COM 65.182.99.55
NS2.BRINKSTER.COM 65.182.101.55


Domain status: ACTIVE

 

That's interesting, when you click the About Us link on the copied page, it goes to the Blogger profile of Evan Williams, the Co-Founder of Blogger. I guess your thief thinks he is quite clever...

 

I wonder how Evan would react to this!.

 

Send BRINKSTER.com a mail telling about this.
I am sure that they will take the required action.

I had similar exp. with someone and when I wrote the mail where he was hosted, they immediately closed his site.

 

Thanks sonia, I am doing it now.

 

Corruption. It's such a greedy world today. It's all about how one can find a way to rip someone else off.

 

Look at the About us on the footer it goes to amitpagarwal's profile.

 

it is so bad that people just do that. they can refer get idea, but why just copy the whole content as it is. and try make money. how long do they expect to go like this