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My website is www.somedomain.com Today, when I googled for it, I saw another domain www.fakedomain.com (set up from another country) which had my website's content. They had used a DNS CNAME of www.fakedomain.com to point to www.somedomain.com I made client side(Javascript) and serverside scripting changes so that visitors come to my website if the URL does not contain "somedomain.com" but I want to block such attempts.

I am running Win 2008 R2 with IIS 7, using Cisco ASA 5505 firewall, dotDefender as web application firewall.

  1. Can I block www.fakedomain.com at a firewall level?

  2. I know in IIS, I can do reverse Domain Name System (DNS) lookup, but hear it is resource intensive. Are there any other options?

Any advice would be helpful.

Thanks

Chris H
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Given that it's extremely unlikely that the server hosting fakedomain.com is also the offender's development machine (although not impossible), it's unlikely that blocking fakedomain.com from accessing somedomain.com would be effective. In any case, there's nothing to stop them stealing content from your website using any dynamically assigned public IP address, and then uploading it to their server.

Seems to me this is actually a copyright infringement issue, more so than a technical issue. If I were the administrator of somedomain.com, I would be using a whois search to track down the culprit, and report it to the relevant authorities in their country. And in the meantime I'd report the infringement to their hosting provider as well, and ask them to take down the offending content.

(For that last part you can probably google Dallas Buyers Club for a reasonable template ;) )

Matt
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