Re:Ask HN: Someone copied my website exactly
by tacone on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:57PM
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Partially related: I had a personal blog and after 8 years or so, I let the domain expire.
After a month it was not only bought, but replaced with an identical mirror outdated of circa 2 years. Even the infinite scrolling js was working.
They replaced all the adsense with their own ads, and put textlinks inside the posts (usually sex/abuse related keywords).
Not knowing what to do, I just reported it to google (and that led to no appreciable result).
Luckily it went away after a bunch of months (the domain is still there, but the website does not load nor it appears to be indexed in google any more)
Needless to say, being the website domain my real name, I felt pretty embarrassed about it. :)
After a month it was not only bought, but replaced with an identical mirror outdated of circa 2 years. Even the infinite scrolling js was working.
They replaced all the adsense with their own ads, and put textlinks inside the posts (usually sex/abuse related keywords).
Not knowing what to do, I just reported it to google (and that led to no appreciable result).
Luckily it went away after a bunch of months (the domain is still there, but the website does not load nor it appears to be indexed in google any more)
Needless to say, being the website domain my real name, I felt pretty embarrassed about it. :)