I was checking out my stats and I see one of my referring URLs was site called http://www.mjcentral.net/SDSL.htm so I went to that page only to find out that some has copied my SDSL.htm page and put it on his site. so then I went to Yahoo and did a site:www.mjcentral.net to see what other pages they have indexed and i find that he has copied around 15 of my pages and add then extensions onto his site. My question is this... does anyone have any idea why they would be doing this other than just stealing my ideas?

Should I:
A) Contact them and tell them to get rid of the pages.
B) Leave them alone

any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

tx

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Wow. This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen!! Was really curious, so typed the guy's URL without the extensions into my browser. The address mjcentral.net resolves to a website for:

Brant Hickey & Associates
1810 Mt. Nebo Road
Sewickley, Pa 15143

tel: 412.356.1001 (800.364.6488)
fax: 412.356.1011
web: www.branthickey.com


Only, based on their contact info, they think they're at branthickey.com. And, they're in Pennsylvania. Then, did a whois search and came up with some guy in Florida:

Registrant: Make this info private
Johnson, Michael
(37125759P)
Employee Account
3250 W Commercial BLvd
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309
US
Phone: (954) 334-8000

Domain Name: MJCENTRAL.NET

Administrative Contact :
Johnson, Michael
(37125759P)
mjohnson@affinity.com
Employee Account
3250 W Commercial BLvd
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309
US
Phone: (954) 334-8000

Technical Contact :
WinSave (VWBIFHKDFO)
contact@WINSAVE.COM
101 Continental Blvd
El Segundo, CA 90245
US
Phone: 310-524-3131
Fax: 310-388-1335

Record expires on 08-Jan-2006
Record created on 08-Jan-2004
Database last updated on 24-Dec-2004

Domain servers in listed order: Manage DNS

NS2.WINSAVE.COM 207.150.194.121
NS3.WINSAVE.COM 207.150.196.122
NS1.WINSAVE.COM 207.150.192.120

Show underlying registry data for this record



Current Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
IP Address: 207.150.221.98 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)-CALIFORNIA-REDONDO BEACH
Record Type: Domain Name
Server Type: IIS 5
Lock Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Web Site Status: Active
DMOZ no listings
Y! Directory: see listings
Secure: No
E-commerce: No
Traffic Ranking: Not available
Data as of: 08-Jun-2004


So, then I went to affinity.com to see who was there, and its a hosting company in Florida:

Corporate headquarters
3250 W. Commercial Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309
Phone:954.334.8000
Fax: 954.334.8001


I can't see why they'd copy your pages. If they're a hosting company, are they so stupid as to believe they could tack the pages onto the domain name and, because there's no way to get there unless you knew the entire URL, think nobody would notice? And for what purpose? And, they didn't even bother to change the link targets, so if you're on mjcentral.net and select a menu item, most of them resolve to your pages. On your real site.

If it were me, I'd be on the phone Monday morning to Michael Johnson, (or the President of Affinity) to ask him what in the ... world is going on. If that didn't work, you could contact their host, but winsave.com is their company. :-(

Hmmm, MJCentral...Michael Johnson. Think I'd go right to the Prez.

Good luck. If you decide to do something, let us know what happens.

Thought I'd heard about everything, but this should absolutely go down in history!

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Thanks, I will call them on monday. Thereason i was thinking about leaving was exactly because of what you said. The links are still live to my site, and they hit the radar screen in my stats so there is some traffic. but who am i kidding ther traffic can't possibly by real. i think he must bookmarked my site. I am looking forward to getting to the bottom of this. I will keep everyone posted.

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