My work site cloned!

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  1. jezmck

    jezmck Minimodder

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    I have co-owned and run carbon-360.com for some time now.
    When we moved to a new host the registrar got them hump and has been extremely unhelpful, and even has his own details on the whois, etc.

    I noticed yesterday that carbon-360.org, which used to be under my control, is now an HTML clone of our .com site! (it looks like it was cloned back on 2007-07-06, see the bottom of http://carbon-360.org/alert360/index.html)

    I've discovered that the .org is hosted by the same host we're using, but am waiting to find out if they can tell me anything about what's going on.

    What do I do?!
     
  2. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    Bit-tech had a similar problem a while back.

    Are you sure someone you work with hasn't bough the .org?

    I know it's not going to be massively helpful now, but remember, always buy URLs in your name.

    I made the mistake once for my mums site and she almost paid £500 to get it back
     
  3. relix

    relix Minimodder

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    Both are inaccessible from here. Your ISP might have taken them down for investigation?
     
  4. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    I can see them both now, they must be back up.
     
  5. RTT

    RTT #parp

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    Sounds very odd to me, I'd check out Doug's suggestion first
     
  6. cpemma

    cpemma Ecky thump

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    The 'blog' and 'News' links redirect to your com site, so you can block redirects from 360.org for starters or show a page pointing out the directing site is a fake.
     
  7. jezmck

    jezmck Minimodder

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    just me and one other guy working for the company atm, there was one other, but he left a long time ago.

    we have just gone through some peculiar dns issues with the main sites so that should account for relix' issues.

    cpemma's suggestion seems like a good one, will discuss with my colleague.

    cheers all, j
     
  8. jezmck

    jezmck Minimodder

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    I just got a reply from the host:
    so that's a result!
     
  9. Akava

    Akava Lurking...

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    Nicely sorted then :) :dremel:
     
  10. RTT

    RTT #parp

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    Woot :)
     

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