Someone pointed his 2 domains to my server

Dear DP fellows,

I have a dedicated server on Godaddy.
Someone pointed his 2 domains to my server. So there are 3 sites having the same content.

Do I have any technical methods to prevent this?

I added this to my .htaccess file,
Redirect www.hisdomain.com www.mydomain.com

But it doesn't work.

I have another method, I could added his 2 domains into my Google account, then delete the indexed pages from Google. But I don't think this is a good method.

I posted this in Legal section, but I think this is about SEO, so I posted it here for help.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Regards,
Bryan

 

I think all he did was load your content in iframes?

i don't think it gets indexed if its in iframes

 

Not in frame. (His 2 domains have been indexed by Google)

He pointed his domains to my server ip.

So his domains have the same content with mine.

 

Even if he pointed them to you, each domain has its own directory and he wouldnt be able to access your content for SURE. Each domain = Seperate folders, and plus you have to add the domain name to addon domains before it is even ALLOWED to be hosted with your hosting.

 

Maybe I have something wrong in my configration of the server.

I ping mysite.com, then I get the ip.

Just type in the ip in address bar of browser, it displayed the content of my website.

Anything wrong here?

Thanks,
Bryan

 

You will probably want to call Godaddy to see if they can assist in getting this sorted out. It could be a DNS issue where the other person just made a typo and his domain is pointing to your IP address (or I guess it could have been done on purpose). If this is the case, any updates or changes you make to your site will be seen immediately on his domain. In any case, you should be able to call Godaddy to see if they can look at your DNS records and help you sort it out. Hope this helps!

 

I don't think you have anything to worry about, but call godaddy anyway...

 

Thank you Firegirl and seo ranter.

I emailed Godaddy, and they let me to ask the guy not to point his domains to my server...

 

well does he have ads? If the ads are yours too, then why bother?? Means more money for you....
Good luck

 

This code is not tested or anything, but I've used something like it, and it should work.

<?php 
error_reporting(E_ERROR);
$d=strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
$myRealDomain=strtolower("www.yourDesiredDomain.com");
if(isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']))
{
$qString="?".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
}
else
{
$qString="";
}
if($d!=$myRealDomain)
{
header("Location: http://".$myRealDomain.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].$qString);
}
?>

Code (markup):

However, if I were you, I'd track what 404s you're getting(for pages that should be on THEIR site), and 404 and redirect it to a suitable affiliate program for now. Or an article on the topic, with adsense.

 

Who cares? Free traffic homey. Waaaa.

 

It is beautiful.
Back in the day, I had the video server from Kevin Rose(the guy who started Digg, and was on TechTV)'s series thebroken pointed to one of my servers. Damn did that thing ever mess with my logging scripts. Took forever to convince google that no, I was not in fact a techie video site.

 

Why would you care their is no one out their that can even make the minimum 100 dollars a month anyway out their it only helped anyway so no harm is dunn.

 

Hi,
i have a same problem.
If you have adsense ads on your site block the 2 domains and make only your domain available to count the clicks and impresions.

 

Thank you all guys for your kind help.

These are 10-20 searches of my domain(or mydomain.com) daily, his domains are in second and third positions of the search results. I'm afraid after getting more indexed pages in Google, He may park his domains.

His domain displays my adsense ads at present.

Just let it there and keep an eye.

Thanks again,
Bryan