Copied Your Website - What Can You Do?

25th January 2007

Today I got notified by a hosting customer that his website had their content and design copied and reposted under another domain name hosted elsewhere.

The copied domain is here - www.nim-company.com while the ORIGINAL design and content are here - www.webpositionexpert.com.

The original site is a friend with a business in Antigua, while the content and design thief is apparently named Robert Soloway, and is in my back yard, up in Washington State.

I googled his name, and this guy has apparently ticked off a lot of people. There’s a lot of information about him on the web, and someone even registered the domain name Solowaysucks.net with links to his other misdeeds.

In an attempt to help him remove the duplicate content from the Google index (yes, it’s in there) I sent him here, to report an offender to Google. They’re usually pretty quick to react to stuff like this in my experience.

He also had another question of legality, and while we were IM’ing each other, I ran across this excellent explanation of his options. If someone ever steals your content, this is a great reference page to review. Nice Job, Lori, (and I see you’re in our backyard too, up in Spokane, Wa.)