Stop someone masking your site under a different domain

[baldidiot]

Bit of a weird one here I wanted advice on. I've been scrapped many many times so know what to do in that scnario, but recently noticed that on a new site someone is just pointing their domain to our server and outputting the site in real time under their domain.

They obviously can't make any changes to the site and anything I do my end shows up immediately. So I was wondering, is there any way (htaccess etc..) to either stop/refuse the masking or make it redirect to our proper URL?

Our site is: globalcasinoguide.com

The masked domain is: gphargreaves dot net

Can't see any iframes or anything else, so do think it's literally just using the masking feature of their registrar.

[DaftDog]

I see it re-directing to your domain.

[baldidiot]

I see it re-directing to your domain.

Someone on another forum suggested using htaccess to redirect it, which worked (thankfully).

I'm still curious to know though if there's a general way to stop this from happening, in case someone tries with another domain (currently the htaccess solution is specific to the current domain masking).

[GCG]

these 2 sites are hosted on the same server according to WHOIS dot sc, somebody got access to your server to do a domain masking.

in other words to do some negative seo.........?

[xecutable]

Has to be manually on each domain you find. Personally I'd say it's a waste of your time. I'm guessing atm you are using the HTTP_HOST method in your .htaccess:

This is something we tend to recognize fairly well in that we tend to kind of ignore in our systems fairly well. So if you have a normal website and some random person is redirecting a banned website to your website then that is not something that’s going to be skewing our algorithms in any way.

So that’s not something we’d see as a site move, that’s not something where we’d say these signals need to be forwarded to your site as well. Our algorithms are generally pretty good about being robust against that kind of manipulation.

[baldidiot]

these 2 sites are hosted on the same server according to WHOIS dot sc, somebody got access to your server to do a domain masking.

in other words to do some negative seo.........?

I think they're just pointing it to the IP, for some reason the server is returning the website. I've been asking the host about this repeatedly but they say it shouldn't be able to happen.

Has to be manually on each domain you find. Personally I'd say it's a waste of your time. I'm guessing atm you are using the HTTP_HOST method in your .htaccess:

Yeah that's the way. And ok cool.

Also I see what you're saying. The main reason I'm concerned is that it's a new site that's still in dev and it's has so many pages (over 5k) that it's taking a while to get indexed. My concern is google seeing the content elsewhere first.

Thankfully it's now saying all pages are indexed in webmaster tools so hopefully that'll be the end of the panic!

[xecutable]

Yah I think you have nothing to panic about.

[Sophia S.]

Most important is to write to google if your ranking goes down.
Otherwise they cannot rank any better in google than the original site of course.