Home Page Stolen

[greek39]

Very unfortunate Ziggy maybe acquiring the necessary skills to protect your property would pay off. I can certainly appreciate why some just can’t be bothered. But being a Webmaster without learning a certain degree of technical skills puts your self in this position. Generally when people read a book they start at the beginning. Out of ten chapters becoming a Webmaster takes up half a chapter, few read beyond.

For myself people who steal other people’s work are scum. I don’t like and find is very nauseating. But become a master Webber then you will know how to take care of business.

The person stealing your content is a highly skilled person. HE operates under several domains and servers. What HE has done is 404 his main domain and created thousands of sub domains. Scraping content is HIS game and has been doing it for a long time.

Good Luck Ziggy

Greek39

[Ziggy]

Thank you for commenting, Greek.

[greek39]

Some good news?

Not sure ZIG but is this still a problem? I am showing a DNS error for the url provided? I guess it could pop up again but I highly doubt it will with your content.

greek39

[Ziggy]

Thanks, Greek.

No, the problem seems to be going away (although another site popped up), in that case I contacted the Domain host, the web host, ICANN, Google and just about everybody in the world. Also SBS sports whose affiliate linked I found on the site (although it was rotating different banners for different sportsbooks).

I am sure they will just move onto someone else, but at least for now things seemed to have quieted down.

[universal4]

Hey, you never contacted me about this....and I'm part of the -world....LOL

Oh yeah I read about it here....

Sorry Ziggy, I do hope you get these guys....I really hate to see this happen to anyone....

Rick
Universal4

[Webzcas]

I contacted the Domain host, the web host, ICANN, Google and just about everybody in the world

Whilst this is time consuming this is definately the right way in tackling the problem and is also the most cost effective. Glad to hear it has worked

[rob3786]

Keep up the fight against these types, good luck!

[CCJ]

Hi All,

Keep up the fight against these types, good luck!

It's good to let everyone know about the offending sites. That way we can all check our sites and also be aware of the offending webmaster.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea but here it is. We should have a sticky post and list the confirmed offending sites to make it as easy as possible for the Affiliate Managers to see these offending sites at a glance within one post.

Thank You,

[MichaelCorfman]

My longer-term view is that it would make sense to build a list of rogue sites (representing the opposite end of the spectrum from GPWA approved portals). But over the near-term I've been having our development group focus more on the carrot end of the spectrum of things we can do rather than on the stick end of the spectrum.

This is my last post before leaving for CAC since my plane flight is not that long from now.

Michael

[bb1web]

Hi all,


sponsor responsibility will be the deciding factor in such matters.

if the offending webmaster can't make money. ...... they'll stop.

it is the rest of the community's responsiblity to NOT promote sponsors that support BH tactics. that is the only way we will prevail.

and its the right thing to do.