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Just noticed - based on the IP lookups 3 of these websites are located in Houston. Coincidence?
Either those companies are with a bigger/popular hosting company (IIRC The Planet was located in Houston and I guess their datacenter wasn't closed down after their acquisition) or it's a link bait. Either way - too few information to make an educated guess.
you can probably add this one to the list: http://newbirddesign.com/
I think you might just be taking the wrong approach. Shaming them is a bad idea, at least as a first move. Seek-out and contact the owners of these businesses. Point out what you have discovered. There's an outside possibility that they have no clue that their web designers have done this. They might actually feel rather embarrassed to learn so. If I couldn't code my own sites and had to rely on designers who took th…
I thought that too but of all the sites listed, only one is not some kind of digital/creative/design/etc agency. I'm more forgiving of the one company that may have contracted out their website but not really for the others who should know better.
Edit: I doubt shaming would really achieve anything (other than catharsis for the OP).
While I agree that these other sites have "ripped you off," I don't think you should spend any more time worrying about it or "fighting" them. From a quick glance, these sites appear to be tiny "companies" that probably saw a nice site and decided to copy it rather than think up something great for themselves. They are probably not taking away any measurable business from you via their copies sites, so any time you s…
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I completely agree to this method. Break their site with your js.
Hey, if we have execute of JS on all those clients, why not REDIRECT them to your site? Free traffic. All relevant.
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Assuming that the people who are copying this code are able to code themselves, wouldn't it be easy to find the problem and fix it? Unless there was some incredible code obfuscation.
Subtle shenanigans could go for some time without being noticed. And wouldn't people who can code themselves host their own javascript, rather than hotlinking someone else's?
If you had any class, you'd take them to court. Slander isn't doing you any favors.
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Sorry, I wasn't being sarcastic. The links on the top right aren't standard. The footer also has a funky styling. Check out the page to see. Just from reading my comment and not examining the styling I see how it could sound sarcastic.
There is nothing anyone is designing that is original.