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How Do I Fight Russian Site Cloners?

Posted by kdawson on from the cloned-and-pwned dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I used to run a small web design service, the domain for which I allowed to expire after years of non-use. A few weeks ago, I noticed that my old site was back online at the old domain. The site-cloners are now using my old email addresses to gain access to old third-party web services accounts (invoicing tools, etc.) and are fraudulently billing my clients for years of services. I've contacted the Russian site host, PayPal, and the invoicing service. What more can I do? Can I fight back?"

2 of 208 comments (clear)

  1. contact your clients by Pinhedd · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you have a summary of your clients (and you should) you should send out a mass email and let them know what's going on

  2. ICANN by carp3_noct3m · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution. It is often overturned in court, and isn't always effective, but taking back control of the domain in whatever way possible is more than likely the only way you will fully recover from this. Otherwise you are simply on a damage mitigation mission.

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    "It's ok, I'm completely secure as long as my iron is off"