WHOIS lookup not bringing up results

  • Resolved evedawes

    (@evedawes)


    2 years, 11 months ago

    I’m trying to do a WHOIS lookup in Wordfence tools of a site thats copied one of my blog posts. When I put in their homepage URL nothing comes up except ‘site set to expire’. When I put in the URL of the specific blog post in question it comes up blank and just says loading (even after 5 minutes). What does this mean? If their sites set to expire should I just ignore this copyright infringement and wait for their site to expire? Especially as I can’t see where they’re hosted.

    Thank you

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  • Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    Hi @evedawes

    What is the domain name that has copied your site content?

    Thread Starter evedawes

    (@evedawes)

    There are now several and it only lists their registrars abuse@ email who can’t assist me and not their host names. Is it safe for me to post links here? I don’t want to be liable for slander

    Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    Hi @evedawes

    You can send the domain names in an email sent to wftest [at] wordfence [dot] com

    Place your forum username evedawes in the email subject field so that I can find it and let me know here when you have done that.

    I can then pass advice back here.

    Thread Starter evedawes

    (@evedawes)

    Replied via email thanks so much.

    Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    Hi @evedawes

    Looking at the AS numbers for the sites at whois.domaintools.com I see the following.

    The first and third sites in your list are using Cloudflare’s services. You can ask Cloudflare to let you know the hosting providers for the origin servers for these two sites.

    The second site is hosted at Namecheap hosting.

    The fourth site is with a host owned by Newfold Digital (Formerly Endurance International Group). The contact email for them is listed as [email protected]

    You can then file a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) complaint with the hosting providers.

    You also can file a DMCA complaint with search engines so that the offending content can be removed from searches. Here are links for Google, Bing & Yahoo below as examples:

    https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice

    https://www.microsoft.com/info/Search.aspx

    https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/ip/index.htm

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