Website taken over by Chinese pornography

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  sarahdowns290318 · Member · Mar 23, 2021 at 2:37 pm

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  Hi! Can you please take down my website? For some reason, it was taken over by a Chinese child pornography site. Very distressing. The web address is http://www.marbledartessentials.com I really don’t use it much any more anyway.

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  austinsangs · Member · Mar 23, 2021 at 2:40 pm

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  I’ve flagged this post for staff help. Please hold as staff gets to you!

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 23, 2021 at 3:12 pm

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  Hi there, while I’m not staff, it looks like the custom domain you mentioned expired in April last year and was purchased by someone else. When you let a domain completely expire, you give up control of it.

  However, It does look like there is a redirect in place from the underlying WordPress.com address to the custom domain. That can be removed by the site owner in Purchases: https://wordpress.com/support/site-redirect/#deleting-redirect

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  aleone89 · Staff · Mar 23, 2021 at 4:05 pm

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  Hello there,

  This domain is not managed by WordPress.com, but instead: http://www.onlinenic.com

  This is according to https://who.is/whois/marbledartessentials.com

  You would need to reach out to http://www.onlinenic.com for further assistance there.

  Many thanks.

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 23, 2021 at 4:43 pm

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  Hi @aleone89 Just a quick question. Would this user be able to remove the redirect currently pointing traffic from the underlying thissite.wordpress.com site?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 23, 2021 at 4:51 pm

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  They don’t have a WordPress.com site, so no. :(