i have heard nothing back. so now its on to plan B. Sucks for them, they should have gone with plan A, they certianly wont like plan B. =X
this is what you get when you post your urls in webmaster forums like this. people mainly come here to get ideas and only a few of them share. in the future, i would suggest not to even mention the categories your sites concentrate on.
according to my knowledge , they have the right to make same design as your site :S . i do not think G or the hosting providers will solve this problem
I had a similar problem with one of my sites. We found an advertisement from someone requesting a contractor to build a site exactly like the one displayed, same content, same navigation etc. The site they displayed was my site...competing for the same target market. I had my lawyer send them a letter and have yet to see my sites "evil twin" surface.
if it helps at all I like your site better Nice logo and design...not to mention the great 3-letter domain name... But on the copies site I wonder if this is true "We are servicing over 12,000,000 web request for over 100,000 members monthly." If it is man that is got to suck a guy steals everything from you and pretty much does it better... BTW What the hell is .to for?
Easy: - Go to your local slaughterhouse - Get sheep's head - Put sheep's head on a package - Write an envelop saying: "Generous gift from Vladimir. Get domain.com down. Don't dishonor your family. Mob is watching" - Attach said envelop to package - Find copyright violator address and send the package.
Personally I would be quite flattered that someone thought so highly of my work so as to duplicate it. Afterall this is the way artists once trained (classical artists anyway), e.g., but copying the masters. I blow all that energy elsewhere...
well all i can get out of them is links to my page from theirs and all the articles taken down on their page. other than that i think i am screwed. but whatever. and no, they dont really have the amount of traffic they say. i have just over 3000 total redirections. they say they have 100,000 theres no fucking way, if they had 100,000 i would have known about them. 100,000 redirections is big, youre talking one of the biggest redirectors. obviously dot.tk and cjb.net are the big boys, but 100k is pretty big. i would like to know how many members they do have though. plus look at their site stats page here: http://opt.to/myred/stats.php now look at mine: http://www.ly2.com/myred/stats.php they use the same script as me, this script naturally shows the total stats. they have modded the script to not show the stats, why would they hide that info? because its a lie i think. eitherway, i have come to grips that ive been raped. i have no money for lawyers and i have no time to deal with it. so whatever. this isnt the first time i got screwed and it wont be the last. i used to know some hackers, if i ever meet any more or come in contact with the ones i used to know, i will jump at the chance. until then they can just do what they do. i would like to say this is the first time its ever happen to me, its a horrible feeling. this was my very first website and it took me forever to get setup how i like. i feel like i walked in on my wife being raped or something. just a weird and horrible feeling. oh well, fuck em. =]
That is the worst feeling in the world.. you should tell everyone in the forum that the company stole your site, but they might say you stole theirs instead or start something. I guess your way out is to hire the hacker. Or maybe you can gather a group of people or start a website about this and get people to join you and help you.. spam him, spam his forum.. That takes time though.. and not a really good way out but hey.. thats wat i thought of lol Hope everything works out for you
Probably client side? Bad luck, at any rate. If you search google.com for DMCA you might find some appropriate info that is specific to stolen content, but can be applied to stolen design etc.
I mean come on i know the site looks 100 % like yours. 1. You used a Template that any one can buy and so did he nothing to say about that. 2. He used the same FREE script as you nothing to do about that either. 3. He used YOUR words thats something you can do something about. Beucase you did not do the design your self you need to go after him for the words. If you used a sitemaker on scriptlance or something like that do not think they sell the site only to you.....
Are you sure he is not just harvesting your site via a php file include and using a string replace to change specific details?
He does not need to the Script and the Template are free or almost. He / She just need to copy the text