a clone-site

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    medenagan · Member ·

    I do not know how to say this, so I’ll describe it directly.
    There is a duplicate or a clone-site that … oddly copies mine. I saw it just now, at a random Google search.
    – My site: https://soirsblog.wordpress.com
    – the clone: http://soirs.wordpress.com
    (Both in Romanian.)

    It takes everything: the name Soirs, the address (soirs.wordpress.com was my first site, that I subsequently abandoned for the current soirsblog.wordpress: I wanted to get soirs.wordpress back – just to avoid something like that, and they tell me soirs.wordpress is taken and can not be used now. The explanation seemed reassuring and I did not insist, but here we are, the domain ‘soirs.wordpress’ was made free and appropriated by someone else), it takes the general aspect (black), the gravatar, the general style of soirsblog, a video from my youtube channel, and even the signature (medenagan). It is very unpleasant. Tomorrow it could hold or clame things that I find untenable, and thus by deliberate confusion harm me.
    The site is – in its 3 postings – full of bland platitudes, kind of a soft verbiage, probably thereby preparing to induced confusion for the future.

    My email address is (and has always been since I’ve been here) (email visible only to moderators and staff), my nickname is ‘medenagan’, so you can easily check the real identity of the person. Please summon the clone-site soirs.wordpress.com to abandon the elements that force a damaging resemblance: the general aspect (black), the name ‘soirs’, the signature ‘medenagan’, and to publish a disclaimer on the first page clearly stating that any intentional resemblance with the site soirsblog.wordpress.com is undesirable and involuntary.

    It is amazing that, on the Google search, both sites come one under the other, which the impostor probably wanted; the interchangeability being of course so obviously unwelcome.
    I do not understand this ‘joke’, nor am I familiar with your policy about clone-sites like this
    Thank you and regret that something like that could happen here.
    Best regards,
    M. F.
    https://soirsblog.wordpress.com/
    (email visible only to moderators and staff)

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    Hi there,

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    medenagan · Member ·

    Yes. Thanks for nothing.

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