servepics.com? wtf is going on here?
 

i just noticed that i have suddenly started taking on hits at my youngerhoneys.com site from youngerhoneys.servepics.com, which when i visit seems to go straight to my site. it isn't a mirror or anything, it actually points to my ip and everything. when i update my site, that url updates too.

thing is this, i never set that account up at all. i can't find out anything about servepics.com and i really have no clue why someone would do this. whats wrong with my perfectly good domain? why would someone want to do this? for the moment i don't care, as i am getting some extra hits, and my affiliate codes are all still intact, but it just doesn't make sense.

my brother brought up the idea that someone might be using my work to build up incoming traffic to that address then using it for some other purpose, but that sounds a little flakey to me. doe sanyone have any thoughts?

bump, sorry, wanna keep this on page one for a bit, i wanna know wtf is up here...

youngerhoneys.servepics.com and youngerhoneys.com show different IPs for me.

youngerhoneys.com: 64.15.130.247
youngerhoneys.servepics.com: 204.16.252.98

It's a copy, you can see the titles are different.

kind of a cybersquatting

they do that to 50000000000 domains and hopefully score some
sites where people type in the title or domain title and theyre
link comes up to 1-10 on the search results

eventually they'll start redirecting and doing other stuff, its a copy now, because they are usign your content to get indexed

exactly.

whois turned up an email address which went absolutely nowhere, i can't seem to make any contact, is there any other way i can find out who is doing this? i guess i'm gonna have to gun for their host. there's no way i'm letting some asshole cash in on my work.

as for whoever is doing it, i'm guessing they probably hang out here on the forum, so a big FUCK YOU to whoever my squatter is...

WHOIS 204.16.252.98:

Comment: For abuse complaints please open a trouble ticket
Comment: at http://www.no-ip.com/ticket or email [email protected]

already lodged my complaint, already been in contact with No-IP's staff, things should be taken care of by now. Thanks though...

Name: youngerhoneys.servepics.com
Address: 0.0.0.0

lol, I'd say that's been taken care of. :1orglaugh

yup, taken care of quite quickly actually. i was pleased with no-ip's prompt response.