Hijacked!

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  laughinwhale · Member · Aug 20, 2015 at 6:00 pm

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  It appears as though my domain (registered through wordpress.com) Has been hijacked by Duke University. What can I do about this? How do I get rid of their hosted content and pursue them on this?

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

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  laughinwhale · Member · Aug 20, 2015 at 6:01 pm

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  Looks like it linked the wordpress domain, the on in question is schlossderwal.com

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  timethief · Member · Aug 20, 2015 at 8:26 pm

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  schlossderwal.com is hosted by Digital Ocean
  WHOIS: Click Here
  IP Address: 104.131.0.157
  Name Servers:
  ns3.digitalocean.com
  ns2.digitalocean.com
  ns1.digitalocean.com

  Non-WordPress.com Nameservers
  Although schlossderwal.com has been registered, it is not using WordPress.com nameservers. If your domain is mapped to a self-hosted site, then your configuration may be fine as currently set up. If you wish to host your site at WordPress.com, you will need to update your nameservers as outlined below.

  We require that your name server configuration include only the following servers or their numeric equivalents:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  Your name servers are as follows:

  NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM
  NS2.DIGITALOCEAN.COM

  If you have access to change the nameservers for this domain, please remove all nameservers not on the required list above.

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  laughinwhale · Member · Aug 20, 2015 at 8:48 pm

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  Correct, I had web servers hosting content at digital ocean. That does not explain how or why the domain is serving content clearly from Duke University. The domain control is ultimately under WordPress as they are who host the A-Record. I don’t simply want to point it back to my content, I want to figure out what I can do about this with whoever made the un-authorized change.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 20, 2015 at 8:53 pm

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  Staff will respond to you question as soon as they work their way forward to this thread. Thanks, in advance, for being patient.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Aug 20, 2015 at 9:35 pm

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  I think you will need to talk to DigitalOcean. We’re sending traffic to schlossderwal.com to the digital ocean servers, but there appears to be something amiss once it gets there. Like perhaps they have accidentally associated that domain with the duke hosting account.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Aug 20, 2015 at 9:37 pm

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  Ahhh,

  I may see the problem. You have both an A Record pointing to what I assume is a Digital Ocean IP address and Digital Ocean nameservers.

  You need one or the other. If you are going to use an A Record, you need to be using WordPress.com nameservers. If you are using Digital Ocean nameservers, you can’t have an A Record.

  Having both can cause weird stuff to happen. I’m not 100% sure that this is the issue here, but it is a logical place to start.

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  laughinwhale · Member · Aug 21, 2015 at 2:26 am

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  Ahhh! Thanks for the help I’ll poke into it :).

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Aug 21, 2015 at 4:05 am

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  Best of luck. Let me know if you find anything that points back to an issue on our end.