Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Site Scraper Follow-Up

Just thought I'd share a small success story, concerning those six domains and 180 bogus poker blogs that were stealing content from most of the rest of us. The six domains in question were:

www.blogs-partypoker.com
www.blogs-everestpoker.com
www.blogs-pacificpoker.com
www.poker-blogging.com
www.gambling-blogger.com
www.blogs-gambling.com

After a bit of work over the last few days, I've now restored these domains to 'smoking crater' status. When ordered to divulge his identity and contact me directly, or lose his service, the site owner tore it down, although his domain-name service had been turned off, anyway; that part of it was a moot point. The site owner reportedly tried to explain it away as being due to some "black hat SEO" [Search Engine Optimizing sumpin'-or-other], meaning that he probably bought some scammer's program on how to rip off the Internet for personal profit and now doesn't want to take the responsibility for his own actions.

Ah, well, he's toast now, anyway. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

4 comments:

Ignatious said...

awesome job. add another notch to your belt.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this, Haley.

Anonymous said...

Nice work!

Anonymous said...

great job mowing him down... I had a similar problem a while back with some guy claiming to have a "preview" of many blogs, yet he'd throw his pacific poker banner on top of it.

I sent him a cease order, giving a drop dead date, which he finally complied with. Unfortunately, he's still scraping content of others (I did an email campaign alerting most bloggers of his doings), so hopefully others follow suit.

Way to stand up and fight!

Mike