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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Someone's copied my entire site!
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:51:25 -0500

on Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:07:58PM -0500, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> I've got someone working their way through the list of copyright
> infringements, and he found our entire site has been duplicated to a
> misspelled version of our domain name! Its identical except for the
> contact information and ads at the bottom, which is the most likely
> motivation. Its hosted off-shore, so I assume copyright laws don't apply,
> damn it.

Offshore? It's at High Speed Web, in Rock Hill, SC.

$ host webperformaceinc.com
webperformaceinc.com is an alias for ellingwood.goodaddress.eu.
ellingwood.goodaddress.eu has address 69.51.10.205

$ whois 69.51.10.205
BW whois 5.0 by Bill Weinman (http://whois.bw.org/)
Copyright 1999-2006 William E. Weinman
Request: 69.51.10.205
connected to whois.arin.net [192.149.252.44:43] ...

OrgName: High Speed Web/Genesis 2 Networks
OrgID: WILDW-5
Address: 328 Willowbrook Ave.
City: Rock Hill
StateProv: SC
PostalCode: 29730
Country: US

NetRange: 69.51.0.0 - 69.51.31.255
CIDR: 69.51.0.0/19
OriginAS: AS8175
NetName: HIGHSPEEDWEB
NetHandle: NET-69-51-0-0-1
Parent: NET-69-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS3.HIGHSPEEDWEB.NET
NameServer: NS4.HIGHSPEEDWEB.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 2003-05-30
Updated: 2008-07-17

RAbuseHandle: NOC2799-ARIN
RAbuseName: Network Operations Center
RAbusePhone: +1-800-498-8054
RAbuseEmail: noc AT highspeedweb.net

RNOCHandle: NOC2799-ARIN
RNOCName: Network Operations Center
RNOCPhone: +1-800-498-8054
RNOCEmail: noc AT highspeedweb.net

RTechHandle: NOC2799-ARIN
RTechName: Network Operations Center
RTechPhone: +1-800-498-8054
RTechEmail: noc AT highspeedweb.net

OrgAbuseHandle: NOC2799-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Network Operations Center
OrgAbusePhone: +1-800-498-8054
OrgAbuseEmail: noc AT highspeedweb.net

OrgTechHandle: NOC2799-ARIN
OrgTechName: Network Operations Center
OrgTechPhone: +1-800-498-8054
OrgTechEmail: noc AT highspeedweb.net

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2009-01-15 07:08
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

$ whois webperformaceinc.com
BW whois 5.0 by Bill Weinman (http://whois.bw.org/)
Copyright 1999-2006 William E. Weinman
Request: webperformaceinc.com
whois server for *.com is whois.crsnic.net ...
connected to whois.crsnic.net [199.7.52.74:43] ...
connected to whois.enom.com [69.64.157.42:43] ...
=-=-=-=
Visit AboutUs.org for more information about webperformaceinc.com
<a href="http://www.aboutus.org/webperformaceinc.com";>AboutUs:
webperformaceinc.com</a>

Registration Service Provided By: Gold-Domain, Inc.
Contact: support AT gold-domain.com
Visit: http://www.gold-domain.com

Domain name: webperformaceinc.com

Registrant Contact:
webperformaceinc.com
Tom Ellingwood ()

Fax:
2549 Noriega Street #203
San Francisco, CA 94122
US

Administrative Contact:
webperformaceinc.com
Tom Ellingwood (info AT webperformaceinc.com)
+1.8976652141
Fax: +1.8976652142
2549 Noriega Street #203
San Francisco, CA 94122
US

Technical Contact:
webperformaceinc.com
Tom Ellingwood (info AT webperformaceinc.com)
+1.8976652141
Fax: +1.8976652142
2549 Noriega Street #203
San Francisco, CA 94122
US

Status: Active

Name Servers:
dns1.name-services.com
dns2.name-services.com
dns3.name-services.com
dns4.name-services.com
dns5.name-services.com

Creation date: 10 Mar 2008 16:17:14
Expiration date: 10 Mar 2009 16:17:14

Looks like a rental mailbox in Chinatown, SF, CA. 2549 Noriega is
between a Vietnamese restaurant ("Tay Giang", at 2543 Noriega) and
a supermarket ("J L Supermarket", at 2551 Noriega); maybe you could
call either of them to confirm, or get a number for the mailbox
rental place. Alternately, it's not a mailbox place but rather an
office building - there's a few pages pointing to that address as
a mortgage place:

http://www.grayboxx.com/c/b/16213093.html

But there are lots of other businesses with similar addresses, so
<shrug> hard to say. Street View suggests it is a two-story building,
and I haven't seen any suite numbers above the 200s:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2549+Noriega+Street+94122&sll=37.753344,-122.490692&sspn=0.009026,0.01929&ie=UTF8&ll=37.753615,-122.491229&spn=0,359.972556&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=37.753613,-122.491114&panoid=iFu95quEow3T1Reo02iivw&cbp=12,176.12524078836316,,0,-1.559345732071403

For example:

http://whois.domaintools.com/groupword.com

says it's registered to a "Steven Miller" at that same address,
but his phone as given is +86, which is China. Note they also own
another hundred or so domains.

The phone number is bogus (no 897 area code) or typo'd (not unusual -
whois is a farce). There's a distinct possibility that this is
just a forged whois record.

Anyway, try to get it taken down with a DCMA takedown notice to
High Speed Web.

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