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Thanks Cyrus. Do you mean Fetch as Google? I'm not too familiar with that specific tool.

Just in case someone runs into the same issue that I've encountered, I'll include my final steps in remedying this problem (hopefully).

I was finally able to contact the webmaster of the other domain who agreed to take down the site. I contacted GoDaddy to confirm her site was down, since I wasn't risking getting my machine infected with malware. Next I went to Webmaster Tools and requested content removal, page by page until all of the bad URLs were submitted.

In my frustration and possibly paranoia, I've also had to battle with GoDaddy to get a new dedicated IP address since I believe this IP could now be "tainted" or flagged as a malicious or spammy.

Cyrus, you couldn't be more accurate. Extremely tough to wait out. Hopefully this will help someone out down the road.

Thanks again.

Nope, it doesn't. I guess it's just a waiting game at this point. Thank you again.

Thank you! This will prevent future issues, but in terms of the other domain pulling rank on mine, is that something I need to wait out since I have no control? Is there any way to have it removed?

Thanks for your reply! It's hosted with GoDaddy on their Economy package. I believe it's shared hosting.

With that being said, unfortunately I don't have access to the server config. How would I go about implementing a 301 redirect for the other domain or even better a 404?

I absolutely agree about modifying the htaccess. As it stands now, I've hacked it together, but I'll see if I can find out how to do what you're suggesting.

I appreciate your feedback so far.

Best regards

Hello All,

I launched my site on May 1 and as it turns out, another domain was pointing it's A-Record to my IP. This site is coming up as malicious, but worst of all, it's ranking on keywords for my business objectives with my content and metadata, therefore I'm losing traffic.

I've had the domain host remove the incorrect A-Record and I've submitted numerous malware reports to Google, and attempted to request removal of this site from the index. I've resubmitted my sitemap, but it seems as though this offending domain is still being indexed more thoroughly than my legitimate domain.

Can anyone offer any advice? Anything would be greatly appreciated!

Best regards,

Doug