liuzhou Posted June 20, 2006 at 07:52 AM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 07:52 AM Some bugger has lifted my entire website! I run a little website at www.liuzhou.co.uk and today came across www.mylz.cn which is 100% identical! What I can't work out is why! They are not poaching anyone who tries to contact me. The contact me function doesn't work in their version. As far as I can see, Google Ads still send their few cents in my direction every now and again. My antivirus software ain't complaining! Is there something I am missing? EDITED to correct link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrianlondon Posted June 20, 2006 at 08:28 AM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 08:28 AM I notice you managed to get in and put some text on their home page. If it were me, I'd cripple it completely. I assume that they liked the look of your own site, and swiped it with the intention of going through it and changing the text; easier than writing their own HTML. How did you find it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:36 AM Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:36 AM How did you find it? They were half way through transferring it and some of the links still pointed to the real website (in fact, some still do.) so it turned up on my referrers list. I am on their trail. Managed to find their ISP. Unfortunately,the usual tracking methods don't work so well in China. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerfu Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:37 AM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:37 AM your website looks to be down. i don'tsee how they can copy a non-existant website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:48 AM Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:48 AM your website looks to be down. i don'tsee how they can copy a non-existant website The site is not down! I'm looking at it now. It hasn't been down for over a month. I get real time stats. That's how I found these idiots. EDIT: In my fury, I mistyped the URL. Should be www.liuzhou.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraldc Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:51 AM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:51 AM in the url to your site you pasted on this page, you put in one too many "u"s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:53 AM Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:53 AM Thanks Geraldc Now corrected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mencius Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:58 AM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 09:58 AM That is some scary story! Do you have any idea who could be behind this? It looks to me as if someone really wants to get at you personally or not? I would consider finding out where they host their website and contact that company with a complaint. This may work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted June 20, 2006 at 10:02 AM Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 10:02 AM I would consider finding out where they host their website and contact that company with a complaint. This may work... Well, of course, that is what I am trying to do. But not so easy to track them down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhwj Posted June 20, 2006 at 11:11 AM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 11:11 AM Have you tried emailing them at the registered address: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=http://www.mylz.cn/&email=on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted June 20, 2006 at 11:25 AM Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 11:25 AM Thanks zhwj. My regular whois failed to find them. I am emailing them now (in several languages! Not all of them polite!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrianlondon Posted June 20, 2006 at 11:31 AM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 11:31 AM They might turn round and demand hosting fees :-) Actually, that sounds like quite a laugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted June 20, 2006 at 11:32 AM Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 11:32 AM I was thinking of cutting some of my bandwidth usage by linking back to them instead of my host! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted June 20, 2006 at 03:39 PM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 03:39 PM Click on the 'ads by gooooooogle' link on the adsense blocks and file a complaint with Google that way, probably the best way of hurting them. Shame they didn't leave the images on your server, or you could have done what I did to the idiots linked in my sig. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted June 20, 2006 at 03:49 PM Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 03:49 PM The adsense links are all still pointed to me! That's what I can't work out. I can see no advantage to them/it/he/she. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted June 20, 2006 at 03:58 PM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 03:58 PM Man, they really are dense, but frankly the people who do this usually aren't the brightest. However you should still let Adsense know - there's a danger that on the Adsense side of things it will look as if the site is associated with you, and that could cause issues later on if they do something else stupid. A quick 'nothing to do with me' email might be useful to refer to later on. The hosts xinnet are a major firm - they may or may not have procedures in place for this kind of thing. I wouldn't expect a result, but if you have a legal presence in China which could concievably sue them a phone call might work. Could be more hassle than it's worth though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted June 20, 2006 at 04:01 PM Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 04:01 PM Thanks Roddy! I'm off to bed! Been a hard day! Will take up your advice and call them in the morning! At the moment they are doing me no direct harm but... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted June 20, 2006 at 04:03 PM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 04:03 PM But it's damned annoying, and they've got absolutely no right to do it. There's a plethora of cookie-cutter sites based on Wikipedia, copy and pastes of other sites, and any old rubbish that's available and they're a scourge on the internet as far as I'm concerned. Add no value and clog the place up, making life a lot harder for anyone who's actually trying to write original, useful content. Which I'm not. Roddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted June 20, 2006 at 04:11 PM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 04:11 PM Googled the domain name and found this - maybe someone needed a homework project in a hurry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiaoXi Posted June 20, 2006 at 08:44 PM Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 at 08:44 PM I couldn't help noticing that the 'theif' website www.mylz.cn has been added as the latest link at this forum.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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