I'm a former teacher writing articles about software development and everything around it. My ambition is to provide people all around the world with free education and humorous reading.
Hello Vincent, I would guess it's the same site. I have seen a couple of sites like this, but this one is the only one I know replacing words like that.
I did never report the site to the hosting provider when I wrote this article. I have only reported a few stolen articles to google, and they do remove them.
I did look up the hosting provider though, but didn't go any further because both their support and contact page is behind a login screen. You can find the hosting provider by searching for the site on whois and look at the name servers. The hosting provider's site has a blue theme. I won't mention their name here since it's not good publicity.
However, I did get a bit curious now when you asked about it. So I decided to simply ask them in their chat on their website. Turns out their terms of service forbid copyright infringement and when asking if they would take down such a site they answered:
if any one report we will not take down immediately we will forward report to client for removing content in 24 hours if he will not remove in 24 hours then we will take action
Thanks for detailed reply. I did look up their host via whois. I suspect it is the same site. Your description of theme of host website matches. Google removed 1 from search results already. The other requests are listed as approved, just not removed yet. Ironically the one case was a post I made yesterday where the DEV version isn't even indexed yet.
I'm a former teacher writing articles about software development and everything around it. My ambition is to provide people all around the world with free education and humorous reading.
Ah I see :) The indexing happened for me too, neither DEV or my blog was visible, only the fraud copy. I simply requested a new indexing of my site at search console and now mine show on top :)
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Hello Vincent, I would guess it's the same site. I have seen a couple of sites like this, but this one is the only one I know replacing words like that.
I did never report the site to the hosting provider when I wrote this article. I have only reported a few stolen articles to google, and they do remove them.
I did look up the hosting provider though, but didn't go any further because both their support and contact page is behind a login screen. You can find the hosting provider by searching for the site on whois and look at the name servers. The hosting provider's site has a blue theme. I won't mention their name here since it's not good publicity.
However, I did get a bit curious now when you asked about it. So I decided to simply ask them in their chat on their website. Turns out their terms of service forbid copyright infringement and when asking if they would take down such a site they answered:
They told me reports should be emailed to abuse@THEIR_WEBSITE_NAME.com or support@THEIR_WEBSITE_NAME.com.
Hard to tell if they would take the whole site down, but I'm sure they at least would help to remove articles you own the copyright to.
Thanks for detailed reply. I did look up their host via whois. I suspect it is the same site. Your description of theme of host website matches. Google removed 1 from search results already. The other requests are listed as approved, just not removed yet. Ironically the one case was a post I made yesterday where the DEV version isn't even indexed yet.
Ah I see :) The indexing happened for me too, neither DEV or my blog was visible, only the fraud copy. I simply requested a new indexing of my site at search console and now mine show on top :)