I have just discovered a problem that has me very concerned. I have a site, let's call it mysite.com. It's an entertainment related domain that has been around since 2000. There are several thousand pages of original and exclusive content there. Suddenly there is now a mysite.com.p.fn.to site which has mirrored my site's content. My site is Joomla based. The persons involved in the foreign site have all the php and apparently a copy of the database, but they don't seem to have the graphics or the template, so it's a text only copy. What in the world can I do about something like this? This is my site, I own the content -- but this mirror site is in Togo of all places, so obviously the situation is complicated. I don't want someone else to use this content -- and I certainly don't want traffic from my site diverted to this one. I'm concerned, but lost! I'm curious to know if any of you have any advice.
While I still don't understand it completely, it appears that if you put .p.fn.to after any domain name, you'll end up with a very similar result to what I found accidentally with my site. try: www.yahoo.com.p.fn.to and see what I mean... or any other domain name for that matter. While I have no clue what in the world this could be use for -- it's in English, so it's not as though it's a translation thing, it appears to be pretty universal, so I'm not really worried about my copyrighted content anymore. I put some pretty obscure domains in there and they all came back with text versions of the correct website. Perhaps it is some sort of a proxy that is used for controlling what the people of Togo access over the internet? I don't know, but I'm not really worried about it anymore.
try to contact the p.fn.to register and report for copyright infringement, this might work to have the domain you mention restricted. Good luck!
It's a Japanese proxy server. I don't think you can make much of a case that they're stealing your content, more than any other proxy server. Oh, and ".to" is Tonga (small Pacific island), not Togo (small West African country with friendly people but really boring cuisine). The server, however, is in Japan. Also you can easily tell that it's operating from Japan by going to www.google.com.p.fn.to - it comes up in Japanese, due to Google's incredibly annoying IP-based language default thing.